The accused in the "Susanna case", 21-year-old Ali B., had fled Germany after the crime for northern Iraq but was extradited in a mission joined personally by federal police chief Dieter Romann. Ali B. is accused of beating, raping and then strangling to death schoolgirl Susanna F., 14, in a wooded area near his refugee shelter in the city of Wiesbaden last May 23. Heavy police guardFollowing a public outcry over Susanna's death, German federal police hauled B. back from Arbil, northern Iraq, where he had been arrested by local Kurdish security forces. Despite the absence of a formal extradition treaty between Iraq and Germany, B. was put on a flight to Germany, with pictures of him disembarking under heavy police guard making front pages. The Susanna case prompted politicians including Chancellor Angela Merkel to urge the speeding up of deportations of asylum-seekers who have broken the law in Germany.

Source: The Local January 24, 2019 07:52 UTC