After a violent crime in Ingolstadt, a woman who was initially believed to be dead is in custody.
An arrest warrant was issued on Thursday against the 23-year-old and an alleged accomplice of the same age, a police spokesman said on Friday.
The two are suspected of having killed a 23-year-old woman who looks deceptively similar to the alleged perpetrator.
Since the victim was found in the alleged perpetrator's car, it was initially assumed that the dead person was the suspect.
The police could not initially say whether the woman wanted to fake her death – it was being investigated in all directions, it said.
The suspects' parents were looking for their daughter in Ingolstadt late Tuesday evening when they finally discovered the young woman's car.
Because the similar-looking victim was inside, it was dark and the car was locked, the parents assumed their daughter was dead, sources said.
Only the alarmed police officers then smashed the window of the vehicle.
Due to the circumstances, they too initially assumed that it was the daughter.
The alerted emergency doctor could only determine the death of the woman.
The autopsy and further investigations raised massive doubts about the identity of the woman on Wednesday, the police said.
The German-Iraqi woman who was said to have died was arrested in Ingolstadt on Wednesday evening.
A short time later, a 23-year-old Kosovar was also arrested by a special police unit in his apartment. The woman who was killed comes from another federal state.
She is not related to the alleged perpetrators.