A migrant has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for murdering his 15-year-old German ex-girlfriend.
The person, who is known only as Abdul D owing to Germany’s privacy rules, stabbed the girl at a drug store in the small southwestern town of Kandel, Germany, in Dec. 2017.
The murder shocked Germany and fueled a debate about violence committed by migrants, more than a million of which have entered the country since 2015.
Last month there was another fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old man, reportedly by migrants from Syria and Iraq, in the city of Chemnitz, prompting protests from groups opposed to Germany’s migration policies.
In March, an Afghan migrant who was denied asylum in Germany, killed his girlfriend in the city of Flensburg for refusing to convert to Islam and wear a headscarf.
On Sept. 1 there were protests in Kandel, with 350 people gathering, and in Chemnitz, where 11,000 anti-migrant and counter-protesters faced off.
Authorities have not yet confirmed Abdul D’s nationality or age, but German media have reported that he likely to be Afghan and was on trial as a minor.
He apparently entered the country in April 2016, according to a statement released in late 2017.
Entered Germany as a Minor
He told authorities that he was 15 when the murder was committed, but German news agency dpa reported that an age evaluation during the trial found that he was at least 17.
Asylum seekers who enter Germany as minors receive better treatment than those who are older, so some lie about their age. There are now calls for authorities to better assess the age of migrants when they enter the country.
The girl, who was identified only as Mia V during the trial, had ended the relationship with Abdul D some weeks before the murder, dpa reported. She met him at school and dated for several months, prosecutors said.
Twelve days before she was stabbed, she went to police to press charges against him, including threat and insult.
During the trial, prosecutors said that the migrant wanted to punish her for revenge and acted out of jealousy.
She was stabbed seven times with a kitchen knife on Dec. 27, 2017.
‘Appropriate Verdict’
Defense lawyer Maximilian Endler told reporters outside the court that it was the “right verdict.”
“It came after we all made every effort to shed light on the darkness of this crime,” he said, according to Reuters. “I think we were able to do that, as far as is possible in a criminal trial. And as such this is an appropriate verdict.”
Endler originally pleaded for a sentence of seven-and-a-half years in youth custody but for manslaughter rather than murder, according to German court spokesman Robert Schelp.
The public prosecutor called for the most severe juvenile punishment of 10 years for murder.
Endler added, “The public prosecutor has assessed how much of the sentence must be served. There will at some point be a decision about that and then it may be that the conditions are met for deporting him back to his own country. That is if deportations to that country are being carried out at that time, which we do not know.”
The migrant does not intend to appeal the verdict, dpa reported Endler saying.
From The Epoch Times
