Murder of Michèle Kiesewetter

Michèle Kiesewetter (10 October 1984 – 25 April 2007) was a German police officer who was killed by neo-Nazi terrorists.

Born in Oberweißbach, Kiesewetter was killed on April 25, 2007. Alongside her partner, they were on patrol in their police car in Heilbronn, when at approximately 2:00 p.m. they stopped in a corner of a large parking lot in Heilbronn to have a lunch break. Shortly after, both officers were ambushed and shot in the head by two gunmen, approaching from behind the vehicle. Kiesewetter, sitting in the driver's seat, was fatally injured. Her partner, sitting in the passenger's seat, was badly injured, but survived the attack. When the police and the ambulance arrived on the scene, both officers were lying on the ground, next to their car, and their handguns and handcuffs were stolen. The gunmen have also been implicated in the murders of nine other people, most with Turkish roots, between 2000 and 2006, the so-called NSU murders.