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Wife kills husband while at the wheel

A dentist was shot dead by his wife in his BMW while they were driving in their hometown of Tübingen on Tuesday evening.

Published: 7 March 2012 12:56 CET
Wife kills husband while at the wheel
Photo: DPA

The 63-year-old man, who has been identified as Fritz N., was driving his BMW SUV with his second wife Stanila N. in the passenger seat.

The 43-year-old shot her husband dead at around 7pm while he was driving, daily newspaper Bild reported on Wednesday.

The car swerved into a wall, Fritz N. staggered out and collapsed onto a road in Tübingen’s wealthy Denzenberg suburb, where the pair lived. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

His wife was believed to have fled on foot, but was soon tracked down by the police, who are keeping her in custody. They do not yet know why Stanila N. shot her husband, or why she chose to do it when they were driving.

According to neighbours that spoke to Bild, Fritz N. had not been living in their home for some time, and when he did enter it was only when “accompanied by tough-looking friends.”

The area is still being searched for a murder weapon, which is believed to have been discarded somewhere in the streets of Denzenberg.

The Local/jcw

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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