Suspect said to confess to rape, killing of German Jewish teen Susanna Feldman

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Suspect said to confess to rape, killing of German Jewish teen Susanna Feldman
Iraqi Ali Bashar allegedly argued with victim, 14, then attacked and murdered her; expected to arrive back in Germany for trial having fled with his family.

Susanna Feldman, 14, a German Jewish schoolgirl, whose body was found buried on the outskirts of the western German city of Wiesbaden on June 6, 2018 (via Facebook)

A failed Iraqi asylum seeker suspected of raping and murdering a teenage girl in Germany before fleeing has confessed to the crime and was sent back to Germany, Iraqi police and media reports said Friday.

Ali Bashar, 20, who is believed to have strangled the Jewish 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman after sexually assaulting her, was arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq on Friday.

During interrogation following his arrest, the young man originally from Kurdistan confessed to killing the German girl,” said Tariq Ahmad, police chief for the Dohuk province of Iraqi Kurdistan.

He said that the two of them were friends but that they had a dispute, and that he killed her when the girl threatened to call the police,” Ahmad said.

A sign is placed among flowers at a makeshift memorial at the site where 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman was allegedly raped and murdered by an Iraqi asylum seeker in Wiesbaden, Germany, on June 8, 2018. (AFP/dpa/Boris Roessler)

Despite the absence of a formal extradition treaty between Iraq and Germany, he was put on a Lufthansa flight to Germany from the Kurdish regional capital Arbil, German media reports said.

He was expected to face a remand hearing after landing in Frankfurt, the reports said.

An autopsy showed Feldman was the victim of a sexual and violent attack, Reuters said, quoting police saying there was no evidence her religion had been a factor.

This search photo provided by Wiesbaden, western Germany, police shows 20-year-old Iraqi Ali Bashar who is suspected of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl. (Polizei Wiesbaden via AP)

The arrest came after an outcry in Germany as police hunting the fugitive admitted that Bashar had fled with his family.

They managed to fly out of Duesseldorf airport even though the names on their identity documents did not match those on their airline tickets, police said, adding that their identity was only checked against the photos on the papers.

Bashar also turned out to have chalked up a long police record over his less than three years in Germany and should have been expelled months ago.

“The government should beg for forgiveness from Susanna’s parents,” said the top-selling tabloid Bild.

“The only thing that is worse than the murder of a child is the murder of a child by a criminal who should not have been in our country.

Crimes like these are explosive for our society because they are the bitter proof that this country does not have sufficient control over who is residing within our borders.”

The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said “it is time to wonder how far the credibility of the government is being undermined when it is surrounded by so many absurdities.”

Revealing that Feldman and her mother were members of the Jewish community, the Central Council of Jews in Germany urged a “swift and comprehensive” probe into the case and tough consequences for the perpetrator.

Protests planned

The case puts renewed pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government over the decision to open Germany’s borders at the height of Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015, resulting in the arrival of more than a million asylum seekers over two years.

Far-right party AfD, which had railed against asylum seekers, jumped in to push its point.

“Susanna is a new victim of the egotistical and hypocritical welcoming policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel,” charged AfD chief Alice Weidel, who called for the German leader’s resignation.

Police officers block a road near Wiesbaden, Germany, June 7, 2018. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

The party has called a protest Saturday under the banner “That’s enough” while counter-demonstrators plan to rally against racism on the same day.

Bashar arrived in Germany in 2015 along with his parents and five siblings.

He should have been deported after his request for asylum was rejected in December 2016, but he obtained a temporary residence permit pending his appeal.

During this time, he got into trouble with the police on several occasions, including for alleged robbery, possession of an illegal switchblade and fights.

He was also among the suspects of the sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl living in the same refugee shelter.

“The girl was raped by an Ali. There were four Alis living in the refugee home,” said Stefan Mueller, West Hesse police chief.

Revenge reflex

The latest crime is reminiscent of another case involving the rape and murder of a student by an asylum seeker claiming to be from Afghanistan.

Hussein Khavari was in March sentenced to life in jail for the deadly attack on medical student Maria Ladenburger, 19, in October 2016.

Roses cover the photo of the 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman killed in Wiesbaden, Germany, Friday, June 8, 2018. A young Iraqi man suspected in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl in western Germany has been arrested in his homeland. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

Tagesspiegel daily pointed to a third case, in which a teenage girl was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, an Afghan asylum seeker.

“What is particularly sad in these three cases is also that the victims were interested, curious and … tried to befriend (the newcomers).

“That’s how integration usually works — there are hundreds and thousands of examples in Germany. But now also three dead girls,” it added in an editorial called “Poison for society.”

Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper acknowledged that such cases spark a “revenge reflex” but it warned that “barbarizing the law is not the answer to barbaric acts.”