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A 32-year-old man confessed to beheading his wife and flinging her head
off the roof of their Berlin building while their six children were home — and
he doesn't seem to regret it.
When Orhan Sircasi described the grisly deed to
police in a detailed confession Tuesday, he said he “regretted nothing,” an investigator told Der
Tagesspiegel.
Ohran Sircasi admitted to killing his wife Semanur Sircasi, 30, on the
rooftop terrace of their apartment building in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood
early Monday, the newspaper reported. The children were in the family
apartment, whose windows look onto the terrace.
He described to police how he dismembered his
wife’s corpseand threw her head and other body parts off the rooftop into the
courtyard, police sources told the Berliner Zeitung.
BILD.DE
Orhan Sircasi admitted to killing his wife Semanur Sircasi, 30, on the
rooftop terrace of their apartment building, then dropping her severed head
into the courtyard below.
Neighbors called the police after hearing a violent
argument coming from the terrace around 1 a.m., and watched in horror as the
man stabbed his wife in the chest, cried “Allahu Akbar Sheytan” (“God is great,
you Devil”), and severed her head from her body, according to the Frankfurter
Rundschau.
"I heard screaming from the neighbors upstairs,
and my sister said something's happening, so we all went to the window," a
witness told BILD.de.
"We heard how the man was yelling, and how he beat her. Finally I saw that
he was holding her head in his hand, by the hair. And I heard how he threw her
head on the ground."
One witness claimed that the victim was still alive as her head was
being severed, according to BILD.de.
Some witnesses could barely believe what they were seeing.
"I saw the head and I thought, ‘Okay, maybe
it's a dummy or something,’ ” another resident of the Kreuzberg apartment
complex told BILD.de.
"But then when the police held up a light I thought, ‘Oh God, that's our
neighbor.’ ”
The Turkish couple's children, two girls and four
boys between ages 1 and 13, are now in the care of child protective services, according to the Berliner
Zeitung, where they are being treated by a psychologist.
Police said Monday that the children didn't
necessarily witness the murder, though they may have heard what happened, the Berliner Morgenpost reported.
The couple was reportedly united in an arranged marriage several years
ago, according to Berliner Morgenpost. Neighbors claimed Orhan had been having
an affair with another woman, with whom he allegedly had two other children. A
neighbor told the Morgenpost that Semanur Sircasi had said a few days before
the fight that she was worried she might be pregnant again.
Investigators are waiting for the results of a
toxicology report to determine whether Ohran Sircasi was under the influence of
drugs the night of the murder. Neighbors told the Berliner Zeitung that
Ohran Sircasi was known to do drugs, and regularly took antipsychotic
medication.
A relative told the BZ that
Sircasi had psychological problems, and that he suffered from “depression with
schizophrenic episodes.”
Other neighbors described the man as friendly and
reserved, according to the Frankfurter
Rundschau.
A Turkish community group has planned a vigil
Tuesday night near the scene of the crime, under the slogan "Turkish men
against violence and barbarism," according to the DPA news agency.