Little time? At the end of the text there is a summary.

The allegations against Ali B. are serious: he allegedly raped and killed 14-year-old Susanna. In addition, he and an accomplice have repeatedly abused an eleven-year-olds. The prosecutor Wiesbaden has therefore charged against him. In addition to murder, rape and severe child sexual abuse, he was also charged with robbery.

Ali B. admitted to killing Susanna, rape and abuse of the eleven-year-old. The abuse of the girl will probably be negotiated in a separate procedure before the youth protection chamber.

In the investigation against Ali B. there were various inconsistencies. Which mistakes happened? Why did his application for asylum stay that long? Answers at a glance.

Refugee or not?

On June 7, 2018, after Susanna's body had been found, the Wiesbaden police chief Stefan Mueller spoke in a press conference on investigations that had already run against Ali B. Among them was the alleged rape of an eleven-year-old refugee girl.

Later it turned out: The girl is not a refugee at all. Five days after the press conference, the investigators said it was a misinformation. The "Allgemeine Zeitung" told Müller that he had made a "regrettable mistake" in the abundance of information.

A suspicion without consequences

It remains unclear why the suspicion of rape was initially not confirmed.

The Wiesbaden public prosecutor's office describes the procedure on request of the SPIEGEL so: On 17 May 2018 called the father of a girl with the Wiesbadener police. He said his daughter had been raped by a refugee. That's what 11-year-olds said to her mother. The incident was two months ago.

The police tried to interrogate the girl and have her examined by a doctor. But the eleven-year-old did not want that, according to the speaker. Four more attempts were made until June 6th. Vain.

The mother could therefore contribute no new details. Therefore, the facts could not be specified. The investigators refrained from interrogating Ali B.

A decisive year difference

The eleven-year-old should not only have been raped by Ali B. Even a 14-year-old should have passed on her. Charges were also brought against him; he denies the allegations.

First, the police assumed that the second suspect was 13 years old. Later they announced that he was one year older. A decisive difference: Only from 14 you are according to the Penal Code criminal. How it came to the error, said the spokesman for the prosecutor Wiesbaden on request not. Meanwhile, the investigators say the suspect is at least 14 years old.

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Also to Ali B's age, there were different information. At first it was said he was 20 years old. This was corrected later: B. was 21 years old. According to the prosecution, the confusion was due to a payer: the date of birth of the Iraqi identity card was 11.3.1997. In the German asylum procedure the 3.11.1997 became from it. The prosecution does not explain how the mistake came about.

The lapse has consequences: Since Ali B. was already 21 years old at the time of the crime, he can not be sentenced to juvenile justice.

The late investigation by Susanna

Susanna was missing since May 22, 2018 as missing. Her mother criticized the police early: The investigators had done nothing for five days, only thanks to the lawyer of the family Susanna's cell phone had been located and a public search was initiated. Possible errors in the investigations were discussed in parliamentary committees in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.

According to the newspaper "Rheinpfalz", the head of the Mainzer Kriminalinspektion told the committee that Susanna had been reported missing for the first time. But before that she had not come home often at night. This was taken into account in the hazard assessment.

Susanna was also for months only rarely in school, as Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) in the Hesse state parliament said. He sees no errors in the investigators.

The exiled witness

On May 29, a witness contacted Susanna's mother. The caller said an anonymous caller told her that the 14-year-old had been killed and buried at train tracks. The mother informed the police - but the investigators found the dead girl only a week later.

In the meantime, the police had failed to talk to the witness. The reason: The woman was on a short break with her mother, as police chief Mueller explained.

According to Interior Minister Beuth, the police did not succeed in finding their location. They have tried several times to reach them on the phone, says the spokesman for the Wiesbaden prosecutor.

The asylum application remained

Ali B. came to Germany in October 2015 with his parents and seven siblings from Iraq. The asylum applications of the family members were dismissed, in January 2017 they filed a lawsuit. But they have never substantiated this lawsuit.

The family lawyer told SPIEGEL that his clients had not talked to him about their reasons for fleeing. The Wiesbaden administrative court had not nachgehakt. So the procedure remained.

The president of the court, Egon Christ, defended himself in the "Wiesbadener Kurier" against criticism. In 2017, the court received 5,179 complaints against asylum claims, out of a total of 1614 cases.

These would not be processed after receipt, but prioritized according to criteria such as illness or criminal offenses. In the case of Ali B., however, the court had no evidence of conspicuous behavior on the part of the Iraqi, which would have justified a more rapid handling. The 21-year-old was already known to police before Susanna's death, for example because of robbery, assault and resistance to the police.

The flight at the airport

Investigators found Susanna's body on June 6, buried next to railroad tracks on the edge of a Wiesbaden industrial park. About a week earlier Ali B's family had left hastily from their accommodation in Wiesbaden.

The parents and their six children flew from Dusseldorf to Istanbul on 2 June, from there to Erbil in northern Iraq. Although the names on the boarding passes were not identical to those on their papers, they were let through. At the airport, according to police, the passport photos, but not the names have been adjusted.

The federal police and airlines are not obliged to do this. The domestic spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Burkhard Lischka, wants to change the SPIEGEL information. In the future, airlines should not only control the boarding passes but also the identity cards of the passengers.

Shortly after the escape, there was a spectacular retrieval. Kurdish security forces arrested the 21-year-old, he was brought to Germany without extradition. Federal Police Chief Dieter Romann flew with special forces to Iraq and brought Ali B. back.

In summary: Ali B. is charged with the murder of 14-year-old Susanna and other crimes. The authorities have experienced various breakdowns in the handling of B. For example, investigators had to correct suspects' ages twice; It was first said that she was a refugee, later it turned out that she was German. Ali B's complaint against the rejected asylum application remained with the Wiesbaden administrative court, although it was not justified.