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Berlin: Giffey insists on using the term »honor killing«

2021-08-09T18:23:40.166Z


Presumably out of an offended sense of honor, two men killed their sister in Berlin. A debate has now broken out about the name of the act. SPD mayoral candidate Franziska Giffey also speaks out.


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Franziska Giffey at an election campaign appearance in Berlin

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The act is cruel, the allegations weigh heavily: two men, 22 and 25 years old, are suspected of murdering their 34-year-old sister in Berlin.

According to the investigators, the suspects, who come from Afghanistan, may have killed the family member out of an offended sense of honor.

In a message from the public prosecutor's office and the Berlin State Criminal Police Office and on Twitter, the authorities wrote of the suspicion of a “so-called› honor killing ‹”.

The murder could therefore have occurred because the alleged perpetrators felt offended by the fact that the life of their divorced sister did not correspond to her moral standards.

The choice of words is now causing heated discussions in local politics in Berlin.

»In Germany, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner every third day.

This is not an honor killing, this is femicide, "said Social Senator Elke Breitenbach (left) the" Tagesspiegel ".

The former family minister and current SPD candidate for the mayor's office of the capital, Franziska Giffey, wants to stick to the name.

"I am deeply shocked by the cruel murder of the young woman and mother Maryam," wrote Giffey on Twitter on Sunday.

“Her life was taken out of a wounded sense of honor, because she lived the way she wanted to.

It must be clearly stated that this is nothing more than a terrible honor killing. "

Only when "forced marriage and honor killings and their religious and cultural backgrounds are not taboo subjects can we take effective action against the causes," continued Giffey.

The perpetrators would have to be held accountable and severely punished.

Also on Sunday, the CDU top candidate Kai Wegner had already spoken out on the matter.

"Anyone who denies the religious and cultural background of so-called honor killings protects the perpetrators," Wegner also wrote on Twitter.

He called for a "culture of looking".

"When it comes to the suppression of women in the name of a supposed honor, we need zero tolerance," said Wegner.

So-called honor killings had repeatedly caused great horror in Germany in recent years.

Often it was young women who were killed by relatives because of their "Western lifestyle" or a relationship that the family viewed as inappropriate.

But men also fall victim to such bloodshed in Germany.

They are killed because they are gay, adulterous - or even refuse to commit an "honor killing".

Giffey currently has a chance in Berlin to inherit her party colleague Michael Müller as governing mayor.

The House of Representatives election will take place parallel to the Bundestag election on September 26th.

Surveys recently predicted a close race between the SPD and the Greens, for which Bettina Jarasch is the top candidate.

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Source: spiegel

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