I've essayed six or seven pieces on the murder of this Mainz teenager, and the Iraqi 20-year old guy accused of the crime. Today, another odd piece fell into the puzzle. This came from HR (public TV in the Hessen region).
I could probably lay out almost eighty facts over this murder and the people involved, which just surprises each day at things which beg questions.
Today....cops since day one have been saying that the Iraqi guy is 20 years old, and would therefor get into lesser sentencing procedures (if convicted). If he were 21, he'd be an adult.
Well....the Iraqi Consulate General in Frankfurt got into this today. He says that the guy in question is over the age of twenty-one.
How? Well....when this guy arrived in 2015....he had to fill out paperwork, and the Germans needed his birthdate. It would go on the asylum application and the visa paperwork.
So he complied....he wrote 3.11.1997. Month, day, year.
Well....Germans want it done in a certain style: day, month, year.
The Consulate General says the correct birthdate is 11.3.1997. So, he's over 21 years old.
If this is all proven true? Totally different case, and totally different outcome....he'd get twenty years. If he were 20 at the time....he probably would not have gotten more than eight years. Germans tend to see anyone who is twenty or less....as still being juvenile in nature. I know....most Americans would laugh at this, but that's the system of the past hundred years in Germany.
But this begs the question.....across Germany. Is it possible that a hundred-thousand asylum applications were made, and they made the same identical mistake? Why this mistake wasn't discovered in the review process? Well....again, another question.
Lots of facts to this murder, and every single one of these leads back to a question of how or why. I've never seen a crime episode that fell into the category of so many facts, and so many questions.
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