The mood after the brutal murder in Illerkirchberg is turbulent.

When some citizens gathered at the scene of the crime, the silent commemoration was repeatedly interrupted by warning gongs.

At the spot where the suspected perpetrator, a 27-year-old refugee from Eritrea, seriously injured 14-year-old Ece S. and her friend Nerea M. with stitches in the abdomen and chest, friends and citizens of the small community in the south of Ulm with almost 5000 inhabitants, grave lights were lit and letters of condolence laid down.

A teenager placed a self-drawn picture of a sports car at the scene of the accident.

Unfortunately he couldn't give it to Ece anymore, he wrote on the drawing.

The 14-year-old girl, whose grandparents came from Turkey, was so badly injured by the alleged murderer that

Ruediger Soldt

Political correspondent in Baden-Württemberg.

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On Tuesday, Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) visited the crime scene together with the Turkish ambassador.

On Tuesday evening there should be a memorial service in the Alevi community in Ulm for the killed girl.

"We have an urgent suspicion of murder and attempted murder and have applied to the responsible magistrate for an arrest warrant," says the responsible senior public prosecutor in Ulm.

The judge had to visit the suspect at the hospital.

"There is much to suggest that the alleged perpetrator self-inflicted these injuries, but of course we are also examining that," said the senior public prosecutor.

The suspect has a residence permit

The refugee from Eritrea is said to have entered Germany in 2016.

Since then, neither the police nor the immigration authorities have reportedly noticed him; only fraudulently obtaining transport services was recorded.

The alleged perpetrator has a residence permit in accordance with Section 25 Paragraph 3 of the Residence Act.

He does not fall under the Geneva Refugee Convention, but enjoys subsidiary protection because he was able to demonstrate that his life would be threatened if he returned to Eritrea.

So far, there is no indication that the suspect and his victims had known each other beforehand;

the parents' homes of the two girls are not in the immediate vicinity of the communal refugee home.

The seriously injured 13-year-old girl is still being treated in a clinic,

but is no longer in mortal danger and could be questioned by the public prosecutor's office.

The accused remains silent on the allegations.

The refugee accommodation, in which the suspect lived together with other refugees from Eritrea, is a so-called municipal follow-up accommodation.

While the state government is responsible for initial admission and the respective district for temporary accommodation, houses and apartments for subsequent accommodation are the responsibility of the city or municipality.

In 2018, the green-black state government set up “special staff for dangerous foreigners” at state level and later in the four regional councils to speed up the deportation of serious offenders, threat makers or those who refuse to integrate.

However, these only become active when the police or the immigration authorities report a criminal asylum seeker to them - refugees who are mentally ill or who are conspicuous by repeatedly disturbing public order are hardly registered by the staff.

In any case, according to the Secretary of State for Integration Siegfried Lorek (CDU), the suspect from Illerkirchberg was not registered as a threat or as a criminal.

There are two municipal refugee homes in the small community: one in the district of Oberkirchberg and another in Beutelreusch.

There, on Halloween night in 2019, several refugees from Afghanistan and Syria drugged and raped a 14-year-old girl several times.

A crime that still shocks the citizens of Illerkirchberg today.

Because the refugee accommodations in Ulm are overcrowded, additional residential containers should be set up in some of the communities surrounding Ulm.

But there is now resistance in the citizenry – some communities took the issue of refugee accommodation off the agenda.

The Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) warned against placing refugees and asylum seekers under general suspicion: "I can only warn against making connections,