Police are at present investigating the case. (Representational)
Berlin, Germany:
A German-Iraqi girl murdered a lookalike she discovered on social media to pretend her personal loss of life, police have mentioned as new particulars emerge of the weird case that first got here to mild final yr.
The physique of a 23-year-old girl was present in a automobile in August on the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt with a number of stab wounds.
Police initially mentioned they believed the sufferer owned the automobile, however the subsequent day recognized her as another person who appeared “remarkably related”.
The 23-year-old German-Iraqi and a 23-year-old Kosovan man had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
Nevertheless, police are actually engaged on the speculation the pair murdered the sufferer after monitoring her down on-line as a result of she appeared just like the German-Iraqi.
“Investigators now consider the feminine suspect wished to enter hiding and faux her loss of life resulting from household issues,” they mentioned in a press release Monday.
She had contacted a number of ladies who appeared like her by way of social media and tried to lure them into assembly her by making “false guarantees”, the police mentioned.
She contacted the sufferer in early August and organized to fulfill her on August 16.
The German-Iraqi girl and the Kosovan man travelled to the sufferer’s house in Heilbronn, close to Stuttgart, to select her up.
On the best way again to Ingolstadt, they allegedly lured her out of the automobile in a wooded space and killed her, inflicting “a big quantity” of knife wounds.
The suspects then continued on to Ingolstadt, the place the physique was discovered mendacity within the automobile within the night.
In line with the each day Sueddeustche Zeitung, the German-Iraqi was a beautician who entrapped the sufferer by way of Instagram by providing her cosmetics.
Each ladies had “lengthy brown hair, a darkish complexion and a closely made-up face”, the newspaper mentioned.
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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