The incident took place on August 11 at Friedland station in the middle of Germany. The police initially said they would start from an accident. The Public Prosecution Service now reports that DNA of the suspect was found on the victim’s shoulder. The suspect and the victim would not have known each other.
According to new information from the Public Prosecution Service, the police received a report shortly before the incident because the man at the station would have caused unrest. Upon arrival, the suspect led the agents to the girl’s body. He was questioned then, but was released because of insufficient evidence that same day.
The suspect’s asylum request was rejected at the end of 2022 and since last March he could be deported to Lithuania. In July the Iraqi was stuck for twenty days before not paying a fine. That same month, a request from the immigration service to hold him was rejected pending his deportation by the court, partly because the flight hazard was insufficiently substantiated.
Minister Daniela Behrens of the Interior of Lower Saxony wants it to be thoroughly investigated why the man was not deported to Lithuania. According to her, this case shows the problems surrounding the European asylum agreements. “It cannot be explained to the citizens that people are staying in Germany for years, while a completely different EU country is responsible for them,” the Social Democrat told Omroep NDR.