Overview
- Governing Mayor Kai Wegner met Can Sürücü at the Rotes Rathaus and said such crimes must be explicitly named to address patriarchal violence.
- Wegner stressed that threats to girls and young women persist in Berlin, including violence justified in the name of family “honor.”
- Berlin cited 2024 figures showing eight women killed by partners or ex-partners and two killed by relatives, with all perpetrators male.
- Education and family senator Katharina Günther-Wünsch said protection capacity remains insufficient, with a ninth women’s shelter due to open soon.
- MaDonna’s Sevil Yildirim urged using specific terms for honor-based family killings and warned that resisting forced marriage can carry lethal risk.