“Judith always wanted to be helpful. She assumed that these men had a difficult past, needed her support,” says Christine S. (67) about her daughter’s repeatedly toxic relationships. Judith S. bled to death after her ex-life partner Fahim Z. (25) stabbed her 45 times with a knife.
Since Monday, the martial artist has had to answer to the Darmstadt Regional Court on charges including insidious murder for base motives. Relatives reconstruct the events on the witness stand.
According to the report, Judith S. met her future murderer in August 2022 at the gym. Already after one month, the couple moved into a shared flat in the Johannesviertel. Judith wanted to finally put the on-off relationship with a violent ex-partner behind her.
She didn’t realise that she had fallen in with “the wrong person” again.
Four days before Judith’s death, Fahim Z. punched her on the nose. She fled to her brother (33), wanting to separate again after only four months. Her fear of the man with unclear citizenship was so great that she went to get her car keys from the flat on November 24 during Z.’s absence. She asked her brother to drive her to the place.
What Judith did not suspect: Fahim Z. had already called in sick to his employer the evening before. He ambushed her with a 20-centimetre blade. According to the indictment, Z. attacked the woman from behind, convinced “that Judith had no right to continue living under these circumstances”. He had sat on her and stabbed her face and upper body “with an unconditional will to destroy”.
Judith’s brother called the police when she still had not returned from the flat after 15 minutes and did not respond to his knocking.
Fahim Z. had obviously noticed this, so he knocked on a neighbour’s door and fled, covered in blood, over the balcony of the attic flat. Nevertheless, the police caught Z. not far from the scene of the crime.
Z. does not want to give any information about the course of events or about himself, he only says via his defence lawyer: “I am responsible for the death of Mrs. Judith S.”.
The confessed killer was assisted by an Afghan translator, but he speaks and understands German well. He had introduced himself to the neighbours as a Frenchman, to Judith’s family even as a member of the French Foreign Legion.
Who is Fahim Z. really? This will be clarified in the further course of the trial by questioning acquaintances.
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