Editing Petra Kelly (section)

== Death ==

On 19 October 1992, the decomposed bodies of Kelly and her partner, ex-general and Green politician [[Gert Bastian]] (born 1923), were discovered in the bedroom of her house in [[Bonn]] by police officials after they received a call from both Bastian's wife{{definition|date=October 2020}} and Kelly's grandmother who reported that they had not heard from either Bastian or Kelly for a few weeks. The police determined that Kelly was shot dead while sleeping by Bastian, who then died of suicide. She was 44, he was 69.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Mother Jones |date= Jan–Feb 1993 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1993/01/hertsgaard.html |title=Who Killed Petra Kelly}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=People In Action |date=December 2004 |url=http://peopleinaction.com/board/2/689.html |title=The Death of Petra Kelly |access-date=7 October 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527122602/http://peopleinaction.com/board/2/689.html |archive-date=27 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The last time anyone heard from the couple was on 30 September 1992 when Kelly sent a parcel to her grandmother.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/what-killed-petra-kelly-they-had-been-heroes-of-our-time-she-was-like-a-modern-joan-of-arc-his-1559264.html|title=What killed Petra Kelly?|last=Hilton|first=Isabel|date=23 October 1992|newspaper=The Independent|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151204044146/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/what-killed-petra-kelly-they-had-been-heroes-of-our-time-she-was-like-a-modern-joan-of-arc-his-1559264.html|archive-date=4 December 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=8 October 2016}}</ref> Police estimated the deaths had most likely occurred on 1 October but the exact time of death could not be pinpointed owing to the delay in finding the bodies and their resultant state of decomposition.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.globalnonviolence.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419080631/http://www.globalnonviolence.org/docs/nonviolencespeaks/chapter12.pdf|url-status=dead|title=nonviolencespeaks/chapter12.pdf|archive-date=19 April 2009}}</ref> Kelly was buried in the Waldfriedhof (forest cemetery) in [[Würzburg]], near the village of [[Heidingsfeld]] in [[Lower Franconia]], Bavaria.