Murder
In 1992, according to police, she was shot dead in Bonn while sleeping by her partner, ex-general and Green politician Gert Bastian (born 1923), who then killed himself. She was 44, he was 69. Her body was discovered on 19 October, and it was determined she had died on 1 October. Petra Kelly was buried in the Waldfriedhof in Würzburg, near the village of Heidingsfeld in Lower Franconia, Bavaria.
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