Murder case of Susanna F.

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The murder case of Susanna F. happened on May 23, 2018. The body of 14-year-old Susanna Maria F. was found two weeks later, on June 6, 2018, in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim . According to the autopsy report, F. was raped and strangled . The Iraqi asylum seeker Ali Bashar confessed to the killing while in custody . From March 2019 he stood before the Wiesbaden district court for murder and rape and was sentenced to life imprisonment on July 10, 2019 .

Circumstances

Susanna F. lived in Mainz and attended the Integrated Comprehensive School Mainz-Bretzenheim , but has been absent there since February 2018. She had met a clique in Wiesbaden , ten kilometers away , to whom a brother of the convicted Ali Bashar is said to have been in contact. On the evening of her disappearance, she is said to have been seen near the refugee accommodation in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, where Bashar's family lived.

After Susanna failed to come home on May 22nd, her mother reported her missing on May 23rd. The Hesse police did not initially assume a crime. A day later, the mother received WhatsApp messages from her daughter's cell phone asking her not to look for her. The mother told authorities that this was not the way her daughter wrote. In fact, Susanna was already dead at this point. The messages in German had been written by Bashar, who had kept the girl's mobile phone after the crime.

A friend of Susanna's mother told her on May 29 that the body was lying on a railroad track. A police helicopter then flew over the area but found nothing. Sniffer dogs did not work, the corpse hardly emitted any rotten smell due to the very dry weather . So far it has not been clarified why it took more than a week to find the body after the report. The police initially did not question the whistleblower, who was on vacation. A decisive tip came from another asylum seeker who lived in the same accommodation as the suspect and reported to the police on June 3 that a roommate had told him about the crime. The information was more specific this time. The whistleblower was arrested one month later for joint rape with the suspect in another case. His initially stated age of 13 years has been corrected to 14 years.

On June 6th, Susanna's body was found buried next to the tracks of the Ländchesbahn near the refugee accommodation in the southeast of Wiesbaden. The girl had been raped and killed by impact on the neck.

Perpetrator

The perpetrator is an Iraqi citizen and called himself Ali Bashar to the German authorities. He came to Germany in October 2015 as part of a family of ten as part of the numerous immigrants who entered Germany at the time. According to her own - as it later turned out to be untrue - no member of the family was in possession of an identity document. The family name registered by a German authority was wrong. It is unclear whether the family specifically provided false information about their identity or whether it was a misunderstanding on the part of the authorities. The reason for the incorrectly registered date of birth of Ali Bashar - November 3rd, 1997 instead of correct March 11th, 1997 - was probably a misinterpretation of the internationally used form 11/3/1997. At the time of the offense, he was not 20, as initially stated, but already 21 years old and unreservedly of criminal age.

All members of the family finally submitted asylum applications in September 2016, after having been in Germany for almost a year, which were rejected in December 2016 for the parents and seven of their eight children, including Ali Bashar. In contrast, the family filed a lawsuit with the Wiesbaden Administrative Court at the beginning of 2017 via a lawyer . The application contained only the announcement instead of a ground that it would follow. In the 17 months until he left the country after the fact, no reason was ever given. Although the lack of justification was submitted within one month and the action should have been dismissed ex officio after this deadline had expired without result, the administrative court did not respond. The preliminary residence permit procedure remained pending.

Escape and arrest of the perpetrator

Bashar flew with his parents and five siblings on June 2 - ten days after the crime - via Düsseldorf Airport, initially to Istanbul . The family members had previously had passport replacement papers issued in their real names by the Iraqi Consulate General in Frankfurt . In doing so, they presented Iraqi identity documents which, according to the information they provided to the German authorities, they should not have had. The fact that the flight tickets - which were made out in the correct names - contained different names than the residence papers for Germany presented at the same time did not lead to inquiries upon departure. The family flew on from Istanbul to Erbil in Iraq and finally came to their hometown of Zaxo in the autonomous region of Kurdistan . Kurdish security forces arrested Ali Bashar there in the early morning of June 8, 2018.

On June 9, 2018, he was flown back to Frankfurt from Erbil Airport accompanied by Dieter Romann , President of the Federal Police Headquarters , and officers of the Federal Police and then transferred to Wiesbaden. Since there is no extradition agreement between Germany and Iraq, several complaints have been filed against Romann and the deployed officials because of this incident. According to Romann, Bashar was not extradited, but deported by the Kurdish authorities. In addition, he was not tied up during the flight and voluntarily stayed on board. The officers only guaranteed the safety of the other passengers. Against Romann and ten officers, including five members of the special unit GSG 9 , a preliminary investigation was due to false imprisonment initiated. The proceedings were discontinued in January 2019 in accordance with Section 170 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office with reference to the competence of the Federal Police to receive a person to be deported in accordance with Section 71 (3) number 1d of the Residence Act.

According to the police chief of the city of Dohuk , Bashar testified there that he had demanded sexual intercourse from Susanna F. and that she strangled her a little later. During the interrogations in Germany, he confessed to the killing, but denied the rape.

process

On January 22, 2019, the Wiesbaden public prosecutor brought charges of murder and rape against Bashar. At the start of the trial on March 12, 2019, he admitted the killing of Susanna. He attacked her from behind and strangled her. Friends of the victim testified during the trial that Susanna first made contact with the defendant's younger brother and fell in love with him. However, he was not interested in a stable relationship. This made contact with Ali Bashar. However, Susanna was afraid of him and reported that he had "fondled" her against her will.

Bashar, however, stated that he had a relationship with Susanna F. In the night of the crime there was consensual sexual intercourse. A fellow inmate, however, testified at the trial that Bashar had admitted to not only murdering him, but also rape.

Expert opinion on personality

The opinion of a specialist in psychiatry who had spoken with Ali Bashar for more than 15 hours diagnosed a dissocial personality disorder with strong psychopathic features. She described him as self-centered, manipulative, and lacking in empathy . He has no interests that go beyond his own well-being, is “markedly self-centered”, maintains an “exploitative-parasitic lifestyle”, is “fixated on satisfying his own needs” and allows himself to be “supported by the state”.

Out of sheer laziness, he had not attended school since childhood, nor did he work for a long time. About the killing of Susanna he spoke cool, matter-of-fact, emotionless and without remorse to Susanna or her family: "I only killed one girl." He despises women and sees their role in cooking, cleaning and staying at home. Furthermore, in his opinion, women should not have contact with other men and should be virgins. He is also convinced that you can have sex with any girl in Germany without fear of consequences. You get money without working, and you can get alcohol and drugs at any time without any problems.

judgment

The Wiesbaden Regional Court sentenced Ali Bashar on 10 July 2019 for murder and rape to life imprisonment with establishing the special weight of the debt and also retained the arrangement of preventive detention before. EUR 50,000 survivor's pension , he has to be paid to the mother and half-sister of the murdered. The appeal lodged by Bashar against the judgment of Revision rejected the Federal Court on 12 May 2020. The sentence was therefore legally binding.

Reactions

Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that the case was an invitation to everyone to take integration seriously and to stand up for common values: “We can only live together if we adhere to our laws together.” Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said that it was with a view to him It is important to the suspects that, due to international cooperation, no criminal - "no matter where in the world" - can feel safe.

Susanna's mother wrote to Angela Merkel directly in an open letter at the beginning of 2019 and made her jointly responsible for her daughter's death. She reported that Ali Bashar was celebrated on social networks, "even more than Erdogan - because he killed a Jew, a 'Jewish slut'". In contrast to the Federal President, Merkel did not react to the letter.

The case, which was also reported in foreign media such as the New York Times , fueled the discussion that has been going on since 2015 about German refugee policy and the question of the crime rate among immigrants . On March 13, 2019, ZDF broadcast the report The case of the refugee Ali B. - A crime and its history in the ZDFzoom series .

Prosecuting another rape case

At the beginning of July 2018, the suspicion that Ali Bashar had raped an eleven-year-old German in March and again in May 2018 in the refugee shelter was confirmed. Another arrest warrant was issued to him in connection with this. After suspicions were confirmed that the Afghan youth Mansoor Q., who reported the murder of Susanna F. to the police, was directly involved in the second rape of this girl in May, she was also taken into custody. The investigations revealed that Mansoor raped the 11-year-old German at the time of the crime, a third time for the girl, together with a 12-year-old brother of Ali Bashar.

The verdicts in this rape case were passed in October 2019: Ali Bashar, who had already been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, was found guilty and sentenced to a further seven years and six months in prison. Mansoor Q., who was a minor at the time of the crime, was also found guilty and sentenced to four years and six months in juvenile detention. Ali Bashar's brother, who was twelve at the time of the offense, is either incapable of guilt or immature due to his age .

literature

  • Hussein Ahmad, Laura Backes, Matthias Bartsch, Maik Baumgärtner, Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​Jörg Diehl, Jan Friedmann, Dietmar Hipp, Andrew Moussa, Raniah Salloum, Jean-Pierre Ziegler: The best for the family In: Der Spiegel No. 25 from 16. June 2016, p. 24

Web links

Individual evidence

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