2023 incident archive
4 documented cases.
- Homicide in københavn, DK
· Convicted · 1 source
A 37-year-old man was shot dead in an open street on Nyropsgade in central Copenhagen on the afternoon of 19 October 2023. The gunman, an 18-year-old Swedish national at the time, was disguised as a food-delivery courier, wearing a Just Eat jacket and cap and carrying the pistol in a Wolt thermal bag. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the district court, and on 19 August 2026 the Eastern High Court upheld that sentence, rejecting his account of an economic dispute with the victim as unconvincing. Defence counsel has said it will seek to appeal to the Supreme Court.
- Homicide in zürich, CH
· Convicted · 1 source
A barman was stabbed seven times and killed on 30 August 2023 at a contact bar on the Langstrasse in Zurich. On 29 July 2026 the Zurich district court convicted a 53-year-old Hungarian man of murder and sentenced him to 13 years and 5 months in prison. The court also ordered preventive detention, finding that the risk of him reoffending with the gravest violence remained clearly elevated, and imposed a 12-year expulsion from Switzerland to follow the sentence. The victim's life partner was awarded 40,000 Swiss francs in compensation. The judgment is not yet legally binding and may be appealed.
- Homicide in baleizao, PT
· Convicted · 2 sources
An elderly German couple, aged 79 and 71, were killed by their live-in caretakers at a rural property in Baleizão (Beja, Alentejo) in April 2023; their bodies were found in an advanced state of decomposition. The killing was reportedly driven by a breakdown in the working relationship and a financial motive — the suspects took a vehicle and bank cards belonging to the victims. The suspects were convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison each, but the written judgment has twice been sent back on appeal for reformulation; a third reading is scheduled for September 2026, and the suspects remain free after reaching the maximum limit of pretrial detention.
- Homicide in paris, FR
· Charged · 1 source
A woman was stabbed to death on the morning of Monday 20 March 2023 in the entrance hall of an apartment building on a quiet street in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the place de la Bastille. Her attacker, wearing a black motorcycle helmet, a blue surgical mask, black motorcycle gloves and a blue Deliveroo delivery bag, stabbed her repeatedly in the throat and chest. Around ten schoolchildren witnessed the attack through the glazed door of the building, and adults alerted by their cries were unable to intervene because the door was locked. The victim's husband is accused of her murder. Investigators found that the killing had been meticulously prepared, with a financial motive, and that the delivery-rider disguise was part of that preparation. He is committed for trial before an assize court in January; the source gives the month without the year.