In the early Monday morning, a 41-year-old woman in Kassel was murdered by her husband. She was the mother of two children, Daughter, Work colleague and a favorite person for many friends and friends. Yesterday, On Thursday the 10. July, became her and over 50 Women thought, who have become the victim of a female in Germany this year.
On Thursday afternoon there was a commemoration at the Kasseler Friedrichsplatz, To remember a woman from Lower Observatory. There were many relatives of around two hundred people, colleague:within, Freund:within. In talks they reported on their relatives and girlfriend, She was simply called a favorite person by many. It was described as cheerful and powerful, As a strong and independent woman, who always fought for her family.
It was important to a colleague not only to commemorate the girlfriend in her death, but also to remember, As she lived. To think of the moments, on which you laughed together and to be able to rely on each other at the feeling of always relying on each other. And with it the deceased, as it was said in a song on the rally, to carry on and never let go.
“I am me, You are. The, What I was for you, I am still. Give me the name, that you always gave me. Talk to me, as you always did. […] Laughs at that, what we laughed together. Think of me, So that my name is spoken in the house, The way it was always, without any special emphasis, Without the trace of a shadow.”
Mourning, From the speech of a bereaved
The commemoration with the “Initiative against femicides“, which is active in the Kassel area against violence. Because in Northern Hesse alone, seven women have been murdered in recent years, Among them Elke, Elena, Anja, Uarwin, Irina and Marie Sophie.
In its speech, the initiative emphasized the structural dimension of female, which she classifies as the most extreme form of patriarchal violence. It was at least last year in Germany 103 fatal female, This is how statistics assume, that in Germany a woman experiences domestic violence every three minutes.
The “Initiative against femicides” called on, to commemorate the murdered and to defend themselves against the patriarchal attacks: “Our strongest defense against this violence is organization. Become active, Talk to others about patriarchal violence. Her voice was taken, But we have ours, to become loud and to use violence. For us that means: None will forget. We do not tolerate any further murders. We want to live.”
