A manhunt is underway in Germany for 31-year-old Jawad Ahmadi, an Afghan national accused of murdering his 20-year-old wife.
German authorities on Monday released a photo of the prime suspect — they believe Ahmadi inflicted blunt force trauma on his wife before drowning her in the bathtub at their home in Bad Salzuflen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
He is now evading the law, and police have warned the public not to approach him.
The case unfolded on Saturday when an emergency call alerted Lippe police to a female body in a residential apartment on Schloßstrasse. Officers arrived to find Shaghaiegh’s lifeless body in the bathroom, surrounded by relatives.
A subsequent autopsy confirmed the injuries sustained were consistent with homicide.
Authorities quickly named Ahmadi, the managing director of a logistics company, as the primary suspect, citing his proximity to the crime and their findings at the scene.
The incident is the latest in a troubling pattern of femicides committed by foreigners across Germany and Europe, many of which highlight systemic failures to protect women from violent partners.
Just days ago, Berlin authorities charged Yasser B., a Lebanese national, with stabbing his ex-wife Norhan A. to death in front of a women’s shelter in Zehlendorf. Despite her numerous reports of stalking and death threats, Norhan’s cries for help went unheeded, leaving her vulnerable to her ex-husband’s fatal ambush.
A failed asylum seeker with 44 criminal convictions, including repeated domestic violence, murdered his ex-wife outside a Berlin women’s shelter, raising questions about why he was allowed to remain in the country. https://t.co/UWe0LG06zc
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) December 9, 2024Yasser B. had 44 convictions to his name, including 31 charges of domestic violence. An asylum seeker from Lebanon, his application had been rejected over two decades ago in 2002, but he had continuously had his residence permit extended. It had expired just seven days before he allegedly stabbed his ex-wife three times in the chest while shouting, “You whore!”
Again this month in Germany, 24-year-old Syrian Hamza A. was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of dousing the 17-year-old sister of his ex-fiancée with gasoline and setting her ablaze at her family’s front door.
In what was described by the court as a heinous attack designed to inflict the "greatest possible psychological damage" on his former partner, the Syrian man doused his ex's sister in gasoline and set her ablaze at the front door of her family home. https://t.co/Hz1QN8RQhj
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) December 3, 2024In October, 59-year-old Ali. K. confessed to murdering his German ex-wife because he felt dishonored that she had left him.
The suspect, 59-year-old Ali K., confessed to waiting for his ex-wife, Claudia, in the forest where she walked her dog before shooting her three times. He had reportedly failed to come to terms with her leaving him more than five years earlier. https://t.co/hup5j9veVY
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 1, 2024The man waited for his former spouse in a forest where she walked her dog each day near Witzeeze, Schleswig-Holstein, before ambushing her and shooting her multiple times.
In France this month, 31-year-old Afghan migrant Naceer is standing trial accused of attempted murder against his wife because she had reportedly wanted “to be European” and embrace liberal values.
The defendant faces charges of attempted murder and rape after stabbing his 28-year-old wife eight times at their home in Noisy-le-Sec, a commune in the eastern Parisian suburbs, back in May.
The court heard how the victim, Fakhira, wanted to reject the patriarchal norms of her homeland of Afghanistan by embracing freedoms long denied to her and other women — walking with her hair uncovered, wearing modern clothing, and taking French lessons.
Her husband, however, grew resentful and controlling, insisting she conform to traditional expectations. “She wants to be European. I don’t,” he reportedly told her uncle.
In August, a 31-year-old Afghan national was detained at Berlin airport attempting to flee Europe after allegedly murdering his wife at their apartment in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
His wife’s family members had found the victim on the floor of their apartment in Vienna-Meidling with multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest and had been pronounced dead at the scene.
The spate of femicides by foreign nationals has shone a light on how partner violence in migrant communities is reaching crisis levels, particularly when a partner has left and it becomes a matter of “dishonor” to the attacker.
