She reached the window with the last ounce of her strength – gagged, tied up, bestially mutilated. More than nine years after the crime, her ex-boyfriend is on trial.
It is about attempted murder in two cases – cruelly committed. The woman’s breasts and nose were cut off, her genital area disfigured. According to the prosecution, he wanted to let her daughter die of thirst.
Omid R. (54) in the dock: long full beard, hair tied in a braid. Born in Iraq, his passport Dutch. He stated that he was an IT technician.
He was married to Banafshe K., an Iranian woman, for a short time. She, then 36 years old and mother of a ten-year-old daughter, separated. Omid R. – who had a criminal record for violence against his ex-wife – took cruel revenge, according to the prosecution.
The prosecutor: “He wanted to deprive her of her attractiveness and her femininity.” He wanted to inflict severe suffering on her – out of jealousy and anger over the separation.
On the morning of October 30, 2012, according to the indictment, he forced his way into the Iranian woman’s flat in the Schöneberg district of Berlin, bound and gagged her, and wrapped her face with tape at the mouth of the woman.
Her daughter was also bound and gagged. The girl then lay locked in another room as her mother was tortured almost to death. R. is said to have said: “If I can’t have you, no one can have you”.
R. allegedly threw the woman, whose hands and feet were tied, onto the bed and raped her. Then he took a sharp kitchen knife – “first he cut off her breasts, then the tip of her nose and finally her outer pubic area”, the prosecutor said.
Omid R. barricaded the windows and doors, then left, convinced that the mother and daughter could not rescue themselves: The disfigured woman would not survive the injuries, her daughter would die of thirst.
The Iranian woman is a joint plaintiff in the trial, represented by lawyer Roland Weber. She has an “irrepressible will to live”, he said in the courtroom. That is why she survived. And because a cyclist reacted. “And because of the outstanding medical help.” She had to undergo dozens of operations. Thanks to plastic surgery in Berlin, “the cut-off nose has been reconstructed very well”.
At around 5.45 p.m., the dangerously injured woman managed to get to the window. A cyclist noticed her, saw her bloodied face and called for help.
Police officers now testified as witnesses. They had to detail the horrific scenes. A policewoman: “The severed body parts were no longer in the flat.”
R. is said to have fled to Iran. He was arrested there and also convicted of the crimes in Berlin. In May 2019 he was released, in March 2020 he fled to the Netherlands and was arrested in the mutilation case. R. responded that he had already been sentenced for this and should not be punished twice. But in July 2021 he was extradited to Germany. His lawyers: “At the moment he does not want to talk about it. To be continued: January 27.