After the fatal knife attack on a 15-year-old in Kandel, the girl's ex-boyfriend was sentenced to more than eight years in prison at the Landau Regional Court for murder. Now Abdul D. was found dead in his cell in the Juvenile Prison Schifferstadt. This was announced by the prosecutor Frankenthal and the police headquarters Rheinpfalz in a joint report.
According to this, D. was discovered lifeless in his cell at 6 o'clock in the morning. According to the authorities, there is no evidence of outside influence. "Suicidal intentions were not recognizable, according to the management," they continued. The prosecutor and the criminal police instituted a death investigation.
The probably from Afghanistan Abdul D. had stabbed the 15-year-old Mia shortly after Christmas 2017 in a drugstore in the 9000-inhabitant town in Rhineland-Palatinate. The act had triggered nationwide horror. The case also fueled the discussion about the age determination of young refugees. Right-wing populist groups had taken the crime as an opportunity to protest in Kandel again and again against the asylum policy of the Federal Government.
After his arrival in Germany, Abdul D. had been admitted and cared for as an unaccompanied minor refugee. He gave his age at the age of 15 years. After the fact, doubts arose as to whether he is actually so young. An expert on behalf of the prosecution came to the conclusion that he was at the time of the act at least 17 years and six months, but probably already 20 years old.
He was convicted in early September after juvenile justice to eight years and six months in prison. The judges convicted Abdul D. of the murder and assault.