Shocker?
N-TV (Commercial German news network) says that the Kurdish cops are releasing this 20-year old Iraqi guy who murdered the 14-year old Mainz teenager to the Germans, and he's expected to be flown out today (Saturday). The same network says that the Kurds have questioned the guy, and he admits that he killed the teenager because she was threatening to call the cops.
So the rumor via the news is that federal cops are at the Frankfurt airport and will retrieve him upon landing.
The remarkable speed of the arrest and hand-on over to the Germans?
Let's start with the interior minister (Seehofer) who asked for the Kurds to arrest the guy, and it basically took less than 24 hours for them to find him and arrest him.
The German public TV had commented that without the extradition treaty...it would be a long process to have him handed over. Well....no, The Kurds are on the other end of making the Germans happy, unlike the Erdogan Turkish government. There was no extradition treaty and they didn't want to waste time making one. You have to appreciate that matter.
As for resolving various issues?
The twenty-year old guy removed his entire family from Germany. They are no longer on German welfare or sponsorship. The appeal for the visa failure? You can strike that one from the books....won't be required.
The two teenage brothers of this guy who were fairly active in school truancy? They aren't a German problem anymore. The same two who were shoplifting a good bit throughout Wiesbaden? Well....that problem has been removed from Germany as well.
The Wiesbaden prosecutor? Basically, the forensics team will do a great deal of work. The Turkish associate will be given a chance to talk and work out some agreement. It may still be spring of 2019 before the case reaches court. But I would generally suggest that with the fair amount of evidence (plus this neighborhood kid who heard the whole discussion and reported the facts to the cops will be there as well) will make this a fairly short case (maybe less than two weeks). The most that they can hand the guy? Roughly twenty years. If they can suggest that he's mentally deranged and unable to handle reality....they could hold him forever. But I doubt that can be proven. Somewhere around age 41...he'll be put on a plane and return to Iraq.
End of the story? For the most part.
There's supposed to be a demonstration or two over in Mainz, and there's some frustrating problems for the authorities to handle in terms of politics. The SPD, the Linke Party, and the Greens will have a problem in talking over their asylum enthusiasm. The CDU will get some blame for the way they manufactured the mess. The CSU in Bavaria would like to repair thing, in a dramatic way. And the AfD will gain points only because they took the opposing view. It will affect the outcome of the Hessen and Bavarian elections....probably giving another four-plus points to the AfD efforts in the fall.
As for the drug trade being a central theme with this suspect? That might be discussed to some degree. He was making a fair amount of capital and never reporting any of this to the Finanzamt for tax purposes.
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