We, the comrades of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, offer our
utmost condolences to the loved ones of German student, Maria Ladenburger. Let
us not forget her.
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Maria Ladenburger, 19, who was found raped and
murdered in the university city of Freiburg (Picture: Enterprise)
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Maria Ladenburger, daughter of an EU official daughter, was murdered
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In the murder case of Maria
Ladenburger, a 19-year-old female student from Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, was
found raped and murdered on 17 October 2016 on the banks of Dreisam River
near Schwarzwald-Stadion of the Bundesliga football
club SC
Freiburg. On 3 December 2016, the arrest of a 17-year-old asylum
seeker from Afghanistan under the suspicion of being the perpetrator
was announced by Freiburg police. His DNA already was analysed
and the man was identified unambiguously.
INTERNET
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Maria_Ladenburger
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Maria
Ladenburger
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Incidents
The victim was a 19-year-old female
student of medicine, who was initially named as Maria L. by the police
according to German privacy law. She was the daughter of a high EU
official, Clemens Ladenburger, a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission. She was born on 6 December
1996 and buried in Brussels on 27 October 2016. Ten days after her death, the
family published her name in an obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
on 26 October 2016, in which it pled for donations amongst others for refugees.
Originally based in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Maria Ladenburger came to
Freiburg to attend the university. On the day of the crime, the night of 15/16
October 2016, she had been visiting a party of her faculty which she left at
02.37 a.m. and was on her way home by bike. She was raped near or inside the
stadium and died of drowning in the Dreisam river shortly after 3 a.m. There
were no witnesses of the crime. A female jogger found the body the next day.
Investigation
Freiburg
police formed a special commission consisting of 68 officers. It questioned
more than 1,400 people and checked more than 1,600 clues. DNA of the
perpetrator was found amongst others on his bike, which was discovered 500
metres off the scene.
A 18.5cm long
hair that he lost at the murder scene and which portended on a conspicuos
hairstyle - a bleached undercut - identified the perpetrator, a 17-year-old
asylum seeker. His original haircolor was black. A policewoman recognized him
on a CCTV recording from a streetcar which was taped in the vicinity on early
17 October, though he had partially changed his hairstyle. Besides the hair,
also a black scarf that he wore identified the man, as DNA traces were also
found on it. The arrest was announced on early 3 December. Freiburg police held
a press conference the same day.
The case was
subject of the ZDF TV
programme Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst.
Police is
still checking if the victim and the perpetrator knew each other and if the
authorities made mistakes supervising the perpetrator and the foster family.
Suspect
The suspect is a 17-year-old asylum
seeker from Afghanistan, a so-called "underage unaccompanied
refugee" who immigrated into Germany in 2015 and lived in the home of a
family in Freiburg, which was also questioned after his arrest. The suspect
will be charged under juvenile criminal law,
which means, he can receive a maximum jail term of 10 years, including the deportation.
The deportation can only be executed, when the underage refugee can be handed
over to relatives or a protectory, which is rarely the case.
Possible
link to case of Carolin G.
It is still under investigation if the
suspect is also responsible for the murder and rape of 27-year-old female
jogger Carolin G., who was murdered three weeks later near Endingen, Baden-Württemberg, 30km outside
of Freiburg. Police didn't find DNA there up to now. Both cases were subject of
the same edition of the TV programme Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst. More
than 400 people called in to give clues to the police.
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The
teen worked voluntarily at a migrant centre
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Reactions
On 3 October, Martin Jäger, Secretary of State in the
Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Interior, sent 25 additional police forces to
Freiburg to increase police presence. Politicians had also demanded improved
equipment for the Freiburg police for some time. Guido Wolf, Minister of Justice of Baden-Württemberg, called
for a change of code of criminal procedure to allow the police to determine
also the colour of hair, eyes and skin during a DNA sample. The head mayor of
Freiburg, Dieter
Salomon (Green Party), stated, the origin of the perpetrator should not
be taken into account "for sweeping judgements". Sigmar Gabriel (SPD chief) expressed his condolences, warned of
"incitement of the people" and said, "refugees can commit the
same horrifying crimes as people born in Germany." Julia Klöckner (CDU vice chairwoman) stated, "such
cruelties are committed by natives and foreigners, this is no new phenomenon.
It's not understandable how a human being can be able to do this." Rainer Wendt, head
of Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft (German Police
Union) said: "This and many more victims would not be, if our country
would have been prepared for the dangers that are connected to mass
immigration."
ARD newsmagazine Tagesschau did not report the case in its main edition on
3 December, claiming it would be only of "regional significance" and
for the minor perpetrator "the special protection for juveniles"
would apply, while ZDF broadcaster
featured it. This was subject to criticism. Stern
magazine wrote, the ARD journalists had given an "absurd" explanation
for their "ignorance". At this time, the case had already been
reported internationally by the New York Times and
the Washington
Post.
Background
There had been problems with
"underage unaccompanied refugees" in Freiburg for some time; several
crime cases were recorded, predominantly around the square of Stühlinger
Kirchplatz, including some cases of sexual assaults, but mostly drug
dealing and bodily injury.
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