Murder of Michèle Kiesewetter

On 25 April 2007, the working day began early in the morning for Michèle Kiesewetter and her colleague. The two were on patrol in Heilbronn. After two hours they took a break at the Theresienwiese there. After a briefing at the police station, they took another break in a parking lot on the Theresienwiese. They stayed sitting in the car with the windows open. They ate bread rolls and smoked. At around 2 p.m., a concerned passer-by called emergency services. When the emergency doctor arrived, the young police officer was dead; her colleague was still alive. Both had been shot in the back of the head. Their service weapons had been forcibly torn from their bodies, and the police officer had also had her handcuffs and other equipment stolen. The 24-year-old colleague, who survived severely injured, lay in a coma for several weeks. Because of the gunshot wound to the head and its life-threatening consequences, he will suffer physically and psychologically for the rest of his life. Instead of investigating neo-Nazis, Sinti and Roma were suspected as the perpetrators and publicly pilloried.

External sources

Mair, Brigit (2021): Michèle Kiesewetter . In: Zimmermann/ Klaus (Hg.): Vom Lernen und Verlernen – Methodenhandbuch zur rassismuskritischen Aufarbeitung des NSU