German Authorities Passing the Buck on Death of Teen Girl
The girl’s family fled from Ukraine after their house was destroyed by Russian soldiers—only to lose a daughter in a senseless attack in ‘peaceful’ Germany.
The quiet town of Friedland, Lower Saxony, Germany
By K. Martens – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20845616
The girl’s family fled from Ukraine after their house was destroyed by Russian soldiers—only to lose a daughter in a senseless attack in ‘peaceful’ Germany.
Officials are trying to avoid taking responsibility for the death of a 16-year-old girl in Friedland last month, which investigators believe to have been caused by an Iraqi man who is suspected of deliberately pushing the girl in front of a train.
Since we reported on the case on Saturday, it has emerged that the young girl, referred to in the press as Liana K., was a Ukrainian refugee whose family escaped the war in July 2022 after Russian soldiers destroyed their house.
Mayor Markus Janitzki, mayor of Geisleden in the Eichsfeld district of Thuringia, has known the family since their arrival in the area and said Lianaaura was “loving, ambitious, hardworking, and learned German quickly. She was a role model for her brothers.”
Further details have also emerged about the suspect, a 31-year-old referred to as Muhammad A.. The Iraqi’s asylum application was rejected in December 2022, although he appealed against this and was temporarily allowed to stay.
It then took the Göttingen Administrative Court more than two years to dismiss this appeal, according to Bild.
Dublin III Regulation dictates that the migrant—who had previously been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia—should have been transferred to Lithuania following his initial asylum rejection. Responding to the case, Lower Saxony Interior Minister Daniela Behrens said:
It is incomprehensible to citizens that people can stay in Germany for years even though a completely different EU country is responsible for them.
Weltadded in its report that despite—or, more likely, because of—growing evidence of official irresponsibility, “authorities are blaming each other.” Meanwhile, others are expectedly more concerned about the possible backlash to shocking reports. Mayor Andreas Friedrichs is warning against “hate” which “doesn’t solve the problem,” and saying that “emotions are a great way to spread incitement.”
Writer Anna Vero Wendland described this as the latest case of “murderous irresponsibility through diffusion of responsibility.”
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
