"They are said to have tortured a 22-year-old woman with salt water in an alleged exorcism – with fatal consequences. In a case of alleged exorcism about five years ago, the trial against four defendants has begun at the Berlin Regional Court. The husband, his parents and an "Islamic miracle healer" are charged with joint bodily harm resulting in death.
According to the findings of the investigators, the woman was to be "treated" with a harmful and ultimately lethal dose of table salt in the water against her childlessness. The relatives are said to have forced her to undergo the alleged cure between November 30 and December 7, 2015 in an apartment in Berlin-Tempelhof, following the advice of the healer (a so-called hojaz). She had to consume one and a half litres of water a day, which was enriched with up to 64 grams of table salt."