Alster murder

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The terms Alster-Mord or Mord an der Alster stand for the murder of the 16-year-old schoolboy Victor E. on October 16, 2016 in Hamburg. The victim was killed by a previously unknown person while he was sitting with his girlfriend on the bank of the Alster that evening . The 15-year-old was pushed into the Alster, but suffered no permanent physical damage. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) confessed to the murder two weeks later, but the actual context is still unclear.

Sequence of events

On the day of the tattoo, Victor E. was initially out and about near the Steindamm not far from Hamburg Central Station with his girlfriend . From there they took the underground to Jungfernstieg and walked over the Lombard Bridge to the crime scene, the Alsterufer below the Kennedy Bridge . Around 10 p.m., a stranger attacked Victor E. suddenly from behind and seriously injured him with several knife stabs. Then the stranger Es Freund stumbled into the Alster and fled on a hiking trail in the direction of the Alsterufer street. The friend was able to save herself on the bank and alerted the rescue workers. Victor E. was taken to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries shortly afterwards.

Investigations

According to the police, the perpetrator was between 23 and 25 years old, 1.80 to 1.90 meters tall and of "southern appearance" with short, dark hair and a three-day beard . He was wearing a brown sweater and blue jeans. An immediately initiated manhunt was unsuccessful. There are no indications of a dispute between the perpetrator and the victim or a criminal background. The victim did not have a criminal record.

At the end of October, Amaq , the IS’s mouthpiece, reported that an “Islamic State soldier” attacked the two young people on October 16. The attack was "a reaction to the calls [...] to attack citizens of the coalition countries", which allegedly referred to the international alliance against the terrorist militia. The announcement, which was distributed in Arabic and English, left open whether the victims were stabbed or stabbed. The message could not initially be verified independently.

The federal prosecutor's office and state security intervened in the investigation, but initially left responsibility to the Hamburg homicide commission . Security groups said that they take the current information very seriously, but also investigate in other directions. There are inconsistencies in the IS creed and so far no concrete evidence of an IS background. For example, ISIS does not usually admit to an attack after two weeks. It is also questionable why he mistakenly spoke of two stabbed people. The protection of the constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen , said that the attackers who were “remote-controlled” by the IS posed a particular challenge for the investigators, as they did not need explosive belts or bombs, but worked with simple means.

The IS creed made headlines around the world. Although initially some terrorist experts did not rule out an IS perpetrator due to individual aspects, the police found three weeks after the crime that they were largely excluded from a terrorist background.

The police said the perpetrator may have injured himself in the attack. She then emailed thousands of doctors in Hamburg to report men with cuts on their hands. On the basis of a testimony that matched the description of the perpetrator by Victor E.'s friend, a phantom image was created of a suspect who was on the Lombard Bridge around the time of the crime. It cannot be ruled out that the perpetrator became aware of the victims on their way to the crime scene.

The murder weapon was also not found during a police diving operation in the Alster. A reconstruction of the fact showed that the information given by the victim's girlfriend was plausible. A survey of the social environment of the victim and his girlfriend did not provide any new information about possible perpetrators and motives. A radio cell query of cell phone data and the evaluation of video material from surveillance cameras also gave no evidence. After the terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market in December 2016, the police checked whether the terrorist Anis Amri could also be the perpetrator in this case, but later denied this. A connection to the knife attack in Hamburg on July 28, 2017 is currently still being examined.

Commemoration

On October 23, relatives and friends met for a vigil at the crime scene. Some AfD members were also there and demonstrated. A second larger group of around 70 people, including Antifa supporters , came together for a demonstration against the AfD rally.

reception

At the beginning of February 2017, the incumbent US President Donald Trump accused the media of not reporting enough on Islamist terrorist attacks. The murder of Victor E. is mentioned in a list of 78 terrorist attacks.

The case was examined again in the program Aktenzeichen XY on July 4, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alleged IS confession raises questions , NDR, October 31, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Knife attack under Alster Bridge: Mysterious Murder in Hamburg , Spiegel online, October 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Popular pupil and St. Pauli fan: Victor E. possibly the first IS death victim in Germany , Focus online, October 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Investigators search with a phantom image , Zeit online, November 2, 2016.
  5. ^ Alleged IS murder in Hamburg: Police are silent about new investigations , Focus online, October 31, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b Police consider IS background in knife attack questionable , Zeit online, October 30, 2016.
  7. ^ Fatal stings and a claim: IS is unsettling Germany , Tagesspiegel, October 31, 2016.
  8. ↑ IS claims knife attack for itself - but there are inconsistencies , Tagesspiegel, October 30, 2016.
  9. ^ IS confesses to murder in Hamburg , Zeit online, October 30, 2016.
  10. ^ IS claims fatal knife attack for itself , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 30, 2016.
  11. ↑ IS claims attack in Hamburg for itself , n-tv.de, October 30, 2016
  12. ↑ Is that the murderer of the 16 year old hamburger?
  13. ↑ IS claims responsibility for a knife attack in Germany that left a boy, 16, dead and his teenage girlfriend injured
  14. ↑ Alemanha investiga suposto envolvimento do Estado Islâmico com atentado em Hamburgo
  15. ↑ Allemagne: Daesh revendique le meurtre d'un adolescent à Hambourg
  16. ↑ Manuel Bewarder , Eva Eusterhus, Florian Flade: What speaks for an IS attack - and what against it. WeltN24 , October 30, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .
  17. ↑ IS perpetrator unlikely in the knife attack in Hamburg. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 7, 2016, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Doctors in Hamburg are supposed to help in the search for alleged IS attackers , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 1, 2016.
  19. ↑ Murder on the Alster: perpetrator injured in hand?
  20. ↑ El autodenominado Estado Islámico reivindica el asesinato terrorista de un joven de 16 años en Hamburgo
  21. ^ André Zand-Vakili: Alster murder - so the police determined a year later , Hamburger Abendblatt, November 29, 2017.
  22. ↑ Friends and acquaintances mourn Viktor E. , Hamburger Abendblatt , October 23, 2016.
  23. ↑ http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Hamburger-Alster-Mord-beschaeftigt-US-Praesidents,gewalttat182.html