Hussein K. is accused of having raped and murdered a 19-year-old medical student on her bike ride home from a party in the middle of October last year in Freiburg. The court is expected to settle whether Hussein K. will be prosecuted as a juvenile or an adult. Due to high public interest in the trial, more stringent security measures are planned, said a court spokesman. Sparking refugee debateHussein K. applied for asylum in Freiburg when he arrived in Germany in November 2015. According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ARD failed to cover the crime and the arrest of Hussein K, despite the fact that other public broadcasters such as ZDF had done so.

Source: The Local September 05, 2017 09:11 UTC