Hanaa S.

Hanaa S. (born 1980 in Iraq; dead April 2015 unknown[1]) was a Yazidi woman and victim of a so-called "honor killing".

Life

Hanaa S. was a Yazidi and was born in Iraq. At the age of 15, Hanaa married a Yazidi like her from Iraq. Her husband already has three children from his first marriage. Hanaa and her husband give birth to three more children. In Germany, Hanaa S. lived in Düsseldorf with her husband and children.[1]

Hanaa S. was last seen alive by her neighbors in Solingen on 21 April 2015. Solingen was her last place of residence in Germany. Before that, she is said to have separated from her husband in 2014 and lived in several women's shelters in Germany.[2] However, she was constantly being stalked and found by her husband and other family members.[1]

Disappearance and search for Hanaa S.

After her disappearance in April 2015, the police searched several apartments in Solingen, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Lower Saxony.[2]

Murder

Manhunt

In August 2015, investigators in Croatia caught the 24-year-old brother-in-law of the missing Hanaa S., who had previously been wanted on an international arrest warrant. On November 18, 2015, the police in Düsseldorf arrested the 17-year-old son of the missing person. On February 29/February 1 March 2016, investigators arrested the husband and another brother-in-law of the missing person.[2] In April 2016, the murder case was broadcast in the ZDF television program Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst.[3]

Motive for murder

According to the Wuppertal district court, the murder motive of the perpetrators was "family honor".[4][5][6]

Court proceedings against the perpetrators

On June 26, 2016, the trial against five suspects began in the district court of Wuppertal. The accused were the man, the son, two brothers-in-law and a sister-in-law of the missing Hanaa S. On June 22, 2017, one of the brothers-in-law confessed to murdering Hanaa S. and agreed to lead investigators to the location of the body.[2] He was flown with a police helicopter near Käthchenstadt on the Autobahn and brought the investigators to a piece of forest, but the investigators did not find the body there.[7]

On July 20, 2017, the police found the body of Hanaa S. in a forest near Kronau[2] and transported it to Düsseldorf for the autopsy.[8] According to coroners, the body was wrapped in a rug and tied with duct tape. A rubber strap was also wrapped around the body's neck.[9]

On January 25, 2018, the district court of Wuppertal sentenced four out of five defendants to prison terms. The sister-in-law of the murdered Hanaa S. was acquitted. As the main offender, the 26-year-old brother-in-law received a life sentence. The 20-year-old son of the woman who was killed received a youth sentence of nine years and six months. Hanaa S.'s husband and other brother-in-law were each sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for being an accessory to murder.[4]

References
  1. "Hanaa S. :: Ehrenmord im Jahr 2015". www.ehrenmord.de. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  2. ONLINE, RP (2018-01-26). "Schwerpunkt Mordprozess Hanaa S.: Die Chronologie eines Ehrenmord-Verbrechens". RP ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  3. "Hanaa S.: Kleidung soll vernichtet werden". www.solinger-tageblatt.de (in German). 2017-08-07. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  4. Hofsähs, Ulrike (2018-01-25). "Sohn und Schwager wegen Ehrenmordes an Hanaa S. verurteilt". DIE WELT (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  5. "Familienangehörige wegen "Ehrenmordes" an Hanaa S. verurteilt" (in German). 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  6. "Hanaa S.: Sechsfache Mutter getötet und vergraben – Richter glaubt an Ehrenmord". amp.rundschau-online.de. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  7. "Traurige Gewissheit : Die seit April 2015 vermisste Solingerin Hanaa S. ist tot". www.rnz.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  8. Online, FOCUS. "Mordfall Hanaa S.: Sterbliche Überreste in Waldgebiet bei Kronau gefunden". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  9. Fuhrmann, Sebastian (2017-08-17). "Lange vermisste Frau aus Solingen: Hanaa S. wurde vermutlich erdrosselt". RP ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-05.
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