Killing of Christy Schwundeck

On 19 May 2011, Christy Schwundeck, a 39-year-old German citizen of Nigerian descent, was killed by police in Frankfurt-am-Main, Hesse, Germany. Schwundeck had refused to leave a job centre office after she was denied reimbursement for undelivered unemployment benefits and when the police arrived, a situation developed in which an officer shot her in the stomach, killing her.