The Wiesbaden prosecutor's office came out this morning and laid out the charges now for the Iraqi guy accused in the summer 2018 murder of a Mainz 14-year old girl. The local Wiesbadenktuell folks reported the basic story.
To summarize the episode (it is a fairly long and 'epic' story)....X was an Iraqi guy who left the region with his family (father, mother and brothers) in 2015 because of the ISIS civil war. Oddly enough (never explained in any detail), he and the family end up in a refugee/asylum center in Germany where they quietly avoid for almost an entire year....applying for a German visa. When they finally are forced into the application process, a few months pass and they are denied a visa. No details from the authorities have ever explained why. X starts the process of an appeal.
The family is granted a temp visa and moved into a house in the Erbenheim region of Wiesbaden. One of the brothers will become friends with a German-Jewish girl from Mainz. X, the 20-year old, gets into various legal matters while in this waiting status. The chief matter reported is a robbery and assault in April of 2018 within a city park of Wiesbaden.
So a few weeks after that assault, X does a rape assault on the 14-year old Mainz girl, and afterwards....she threatens to report him to the police. X strangles the girl and then buries her in a local farm area.
Cops can't find any body, so they can only ask questions. X determines that staying in Germany isn't smart....so he arranges via the Iraqi government for entry papers into Iraq (with a different name). You would think that the suggestion of an abduction and disappearance...would have led to the cops monitoring him more, but since there is no body, there are no charges. So he and the family go out of Germany, returning to Iraq.
The local cops are led just about at this exit time....by an Afghan kid (13 years old at this point) to the graveside. The kid lives in the same building and knew some parts to the story. At some point, the local authorities applaud the 'courage' of the young kid to share information.
Regional authorities can now proceed to detaining X, but realize now.....he's left the country. Getting to him in Iraq? Well....there's no extradition treaty, so the federal authorities and the German Justice Ministry hint that it might be months or years before they can get this guy. The local cops? They contact the local cops where X landed (Kurdish cops), and within 24 hours, they have the guy.
Yep, shocker. They also start questioning him, and he tells the whole story.
Now the next shocker, with the German federal prosecutor folks talking about the woes of extradition....the Kurdish cops say come and get him without the extradition paperwork. So a local chief cop gets on a plane....flies into Iraq, and takes possession. Yes, this kinda infuriates the German legal folks and probably will be a sour point in the prosecution, but X then arrives back in Germany.
So today....charges are put up on the board. Rape and murder charges will be attempted.
Oddly enough, the prosecution team has put up an additional rape....an 11-year old refugee girl from the local area as well. The Afghan kid (now 14 years old)? Well....there's charges on him for sexual assault as well. There's also a mention of threats made by the kid against victims.
Timeframe of this case? The journalists left this out of the story but I would imagine that it'd start by mid-summer. Will X be treated as a juvenile? All of these suggested crimes occurred with the guy in the 19-to-20 age bracket, which typically means being treated as a juvenile. Some Germans will question this handling but it's the typical acceptance of German society that anyone under 21 is not really an adult.
The 14-year old Afghan kid? He will be treated as a juvenile in his case.
A story worth a movie? This is the odd thing about the story.....there are at least 300 pages of script that you could weave out of this....this saga of how X and the family left Iraq. The months in the German refugee center. The leaning of X toward a criminal situation. The Jewish girl from Mainz. The murder. The entry papers. The escape from Germany. The Kurds finding X. The recovery of X back to Germany. The authorities basically admitting that with all these disciplinary problems before the murder....no one wanted to take any firm hand with X.
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