The Moshammer murder case in January 2005 was clarified after just 48 hours: A comparison of a DNA trace from the crime scene with the DNA analysis file at the Federal Criminal Police Office pointed to a 25-year-old Iraqi.

The indebted temporary cook was suspected of having murdered Rudolph Moshammer, who had become famous as the "fashion tsar", in his house in Grünwald.

Karen Truscheit

Editor in the “Germany and the World” department.

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Moshammer had previously approached the young man near Munich Central Station when he was traveling in his Rolls-Royce.

Sexual acts are said to have taken place in Moshammer's house.

According to the verdict, the Iraqi strangled Moshammer with an electric cable in order to rob him.

The man who came to Germany in 2001 stated that Moshammer did not want to pay the agreed 2,000 euros.

During his interrogation he also complained that he was so poor and others so rich.

The Munich I Regional Court, under the presiding judge Manfred Götzl (who years later convicted Beate Zschäpe), imposed a life sentence in November 2005 for murder and robbery.

The particular severity of the guilt was also established.

He is never allowed to enter Germany again

Now it has become known that the Iraqi will soon be deported to his country of origin - after he has served 18 years of his prison term.

In Iraq he is then a free man.

The 18 years is considered the “minimum period of service” before parole can be considered.

According to the German Press Agency, the Munich I public prosecutor's office had rejected release from prison for the remainder of the sentence within Germany.

An expert classified the convict as not yet ripe for release because there was no "social reception room".

However, the public prosecutor's office was open to deportation directly from detention.

However, the Iraqi is no longer allowed to enter Germany for the rest of his life.

A key hurdle on the way to his return to Iraq was the recognition of his identity by the Iraqi authorities.

According to the Bavarian State Office for Asylum and Repatriations on Thursday, the replacement passport paper required for repatriation is now available.

They are now "in close cooperation with the federal police, the judiciary and the Iraqi authorities to organize and carry out a timely repatriation flight for the person concerned".

According to the information, the case of the Iraqi has been in the sights of the responsible immigration authorities for "several years".

In June 2022, the authorities began to formally clarify the man's identity.

This included his hearing before a delegation from Iraq.

This hearing - "an important intermediate step" - took place in November 2022.

The repatriation of criminals who are required to leave the country is “an important concern at all times” for the state office.