A 14-year-old Jewish girl is found dead Thursday near the German city of Wiesbaden, with police saying two asylum seekers, one Iraqi and one Turkish, are believed to have raped and murdered her.
Susanna F. went missing two weeks ago. On Thursday, following the finding of her body, police issue a statement confirming she had been raped, killed and buried during the night of May 22.
Prosecutors say Thursday that two men — a 20-year-old Iraqi and a 35-year-old Turkish citizen, both of whom lived at homes for asylum seekers in the city — are suspected of raping and killing the girl on the evening she went missing. They believe the two then buried her body.
Police say the Iraqi man, whom they identified as Ali Basar, appears to have left abruptly with his family last week, flying to Erbil, Iraq, via Istanbul. He is also a suspect in a string of previous offenses in the Wiesbaden area, including a robbery at knifepoint.
He’s believed to have arrived in Germany in October 2015, at the height of the migrant influx to Germany, and was appealing the rejection of his asylum application when he suddenly left the country.
— Raphael Ahren
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