Germany says suspect in rape, murder of Jewish teen caught in Iraq

BERLIN — An Iraqi asylum seeker wanted over the rape and murder of a Jewish teenage girl in Germany has been arrested in Iraq, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says Friday.

Ali Bashar, 20, who is believed to have strangled Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, after sexually assaulting her, was “arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq at the request of German federal police,” says Seehofer.

— AFP

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