Mariam
Died 12 April 2018
Who they were
Mariam was 21 months old.
What happened
On 12 April 2018, Mariam and her mother Sandra were stabbed to death at the Jungfernstieg S-Bahn station in Hamburg by Mariam's father. In February 2019 the Hamburg Regional Court sentenced him to life imprisonment with particular gravity of guilt; the verdict became final in 2020.
Verdict / confirmation
Landgericht Hamburg, 15 Feb 2019: life imprisonment for two murders; particular gravity of guilt; final after the Bundesgerichtshof rejected the appeal (Apr 2020).
Perpetrator: Mariam's father, Sandra's former partner, a man from Niger (Spiegel, Zeit); acted out of revenge.