Stadtallendorf/Marburg (dpa/lhe) - A 34-year-old man was taken into custody on suspicion of the murder of his wife in Stadtallendorf in central Hesse. The man is said to have inflicted 41 stab wounds and cuts on the 28-year-old with a large kitchen knife on Sunday night, as the public prosecutor and police announced on Monday in Marburg. According to their findings so far, the investigators assume that the woman's separation was the motive for the crime.
Shortly before the brutal attack, the couple, who have been separated since the beginning of the year, are said to have met in a bar. The suspect asked the 28-year-old to leave the restaurant with him to talk. The woman refused. The 34-year-old is said to have left the bar and ambushed the 28-year-old in front of her apartment. When the woman got home and was about to open the front door, the suspect approached her from behind, investigators said. When the woman turned around, he stabbed her with the kitchen knife.
The victim suffered wounds all over her body, including injuries to internal organs. "These injuries were the cause of death with the associated massive loss of blood," reported the police and prosecutors. After the attack, the suspect turned himself in to the police. According to a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office, the man has Azerbaijani nationality, the woman was German.
Investigations into the course of events and the background to the crime are ongoing. Officials are asking witnesses to come forward.
