After their survey, the audience in room 0.020 of the District Court Wiesbaden wonder how a girl like Adel could bestow a heart to a young man like Ali B. Nobility is 17 years old, right in the middle of education. She looks younger, wearing a plaid blazer, black sneakers. For a year she was in a committed relationship with the alleged murderer of 14-year-old Susanna from Mainz.
For two and a half hours she talks to the participants in the process and speaks in a calm tone, deliberate and objective. She knew Ali B. for a year before they became a couple; she knows his parents, his four brothers, his three older sisters. Almost every day she was at home with the family in the refugee home on Kreuzberger Strasse in Wiesbaden.
On some days, Ali B. took her from school, Adel was just graduating from high school. On some days she first brought her bag home, then drove straight to him. They hung out in his room, walked along the Rhine, met friends in the city center or went swimming. When they broke up, they telephoned several more times; often in the middle of the night, until Adel fell asleep on the phone. It sounds like a harmless teenage love.
He knew all their passwords
But on demand, the picture becomes cloudy: Ali B. took Adel's cell phone when they were together, sometimes he kept it overnight. He knew all her passwords, could allegedly read via an app the news she sent via WhatsApp and received. He forbade her contact with friends and always carried a knife.
Whether he always behaved to her in a friendly and loving way, even if they were intimate with each other, wants to know the psychiatric reviewer. He was "always nice" to her, so she was "yes also with him," says Adel in court.
She obviously showed him that under the influence of alcohol, his aggression level rose, that he beat his younger brother with a belt, that he was unfairly accusing her of being a stranger, that she, her mother, insulted her whole family. All this she tells herself, she has watched, experienced, endured.
Ali B. was jealous, says Adel. He subordinated her affair, calling her a "slut". A defamation, which in the case of Ali B. could be more than a mere swear word. In an interrogation, he is said to have Susanna, whose murder he has admitted in court, as a "slut", because for him all girls are sluts who may go alone on the street.
His former girlfriend Adel confirms in court Ali B's crudely feminine image: "In my presence he called every other girl a bitch." He also portrayed Susanna as such because she slept with guys from his younger brother's clique. Which is not true.
Susanna knew nobility only fleetingly. According to Adel, that was because Susanna, 14 years old, was spending time with her peers and Ali B's younger brother. Nobility says that she rarely met Susanna, that she found her restrained, rather calm.
The afternoon before Susanna died allegedly nobility spent with Ali B. They drank vodka with energy drinks, Ali B. plucked flowers for his girlfriend in the park, at some point they met the clique of his younger brother. Nobility had to go home, they all accompanied them to the Platz der Deutschen Einheit and boarded the bus together - Susanna, too.
Susanna and Ali accompanied the nobility halfway home, then turned back and drove off. Several times nobility tried to reach Ali on his cell phone - but he swarmed them away. Most recently, she talked to him at 1:09. Seven minutes and 29 seconds long. Ali B. said he had a problem, that he would explain everything later.
Did not it bother her that her boyfriend bury two bodies?
When Adel spoke to him the next day on the phone call, Ali graced first. If he told her the truth, she would break up, he told her, and told her the lie: he had drunk a bottle of vodka the night before, met a man he had once had a clash with in the past, and himself beaten with him. He could not control himself anymore and killed the man.
At the police interrogation, Adel had stated that Ali B. had spoken of being involved in a fight in which two more men had killed that man. When Chief Prosecutor Schneider confronts her with her testimony on the precinct, Adel corrects: "Yes, true, he had said that the men killed the man, but he had to help burying them."
When a few days later a picture of Susanna appeared in the public search, Adel Ali B. sent a screenshot: "Is not that a friend of your younger brother?" Ali B. had then confessed that he had been forced by a man to help burying Susanna's body. This man, a member of the mafia, threatened Ali B. to do something to his sister.
Did not nobility irritate that her friend should have buried two bodies within a few days? "Actually, I always believed Ali B. everything he said to me, regardless of whether it was logical or not."