They introduced themselves as "Hakan", "Kara" and "Susann". But these were not their real names, they worked on behalf of the Federal Criminal Office as covert investigators. In early 2018, the three entered the life of Ali K.'s family, made presents, and executed the suspect - including the brothel. Ali K. was still a free man at that time, today sits the 44-year-old in pretrial detention and has to answer for murder in court. The prosecution accuses him of raping and killing 14-year-old Georgine Krüger in September 2006.
For years, the police were in the dark, after the use of covert investigators, it went relatively quickly. The public prosecutor's office is convinced that they have caught the perpetrator with Ali K., that he told the undercover investigator "Kara" about the murder of Georgine.
At the trial prelude in early August, the defendant was silent on the allegation. For this Friday, a statement is expected by his lawyer. Already on Wednesday said the wife and the son of the defendant - and gave an insight into the actions of the undercover investigators.
First, Ali K. made friends with "Hakan". The allegedly came from the west of Germany, where he sold cleaning products, as wife Melek K. told the Berlin district court. As a relative, the 46-year-old does not have to testify. The mother of three children did it anyway - until the defense advised her in a break, better to say nothing.
They played "Man does not annoy you" and went to the brothel
"Hakan" was new at that time in Berlin. When he asked her husband for help in transferring an old Mercedes to Frankfurt, Ali K. drove the rented car transporter. His client had him for a night in a luxury hotel. There "Hakan" also introduced him to "Kara", his business partner and cousin on his mother's side. Allegedly, "Kara" should still earn a lot of money as a personal fitness trainer. "These are nice people," her husband later told, according to Melek K.
In Berlin, Ali K. invited "Hakan" to his home for dinner. "He was a bit shy, almost embarrassed, as if he was bothering us," the witness recalled. "Hakan" therefore told about his detergents, which he now wants to sell in Berlin. He then asked if she could take care of his German friend Susann. Melek K. agreed, she wanted to cook something for her.
From then on, the K. couple met regularly with "Susi" and "Hakan": The newcomers invited to drink coffee and to eat, and they also initiated excursions. Family K. returned the favor with tea, which was drunk on her balcony. Together with "Kara" they played "Humans do not annoy you". The men often went to billiard salons. When "Susi" was ill, Melek K. brought her a soup.
The covert investigators also umwarben the children of the family K .: With the eldest son they drove around in "Karas" Mercedes AMG. "Susann" bought clothes with her middle daughter and also brought some tops for Melek K. The youngest daughter regularly got toys as a gift.
"Hakan" promised unemployed and indebted Ali K. a dream job. The supposed detergent representative wanted to open a car wash in Berlin. Ali K. should be manager there, earn 3000 euros net and get a company car.
"Ali came home completely panicked"
Then the presiding judge Peter Faust addresses the "unpleasant things": "Did you know that your husband was unfaithful to you?" Melek K. does not want to know about the brothel visits her husband made with "Hakan" and "Kara".
With a camera on the balcony, the court had already learned, Ali K. is said to have observed girls. At least the alleged victims had reported that lived in a supervised residential group in the neighboring apartment. Melek K. gave another reason for the camera: "Our car was very often scratched and the tires pierced with nails."
The judge goes on to say: Did she learn that her husband tried to rape a minor eight years ago? Ali K. was also convicted for this. His wife replies, "It was like these girls approached Ali, they opened the windows, they were naked." The later victim would have pursued Ali K. in the dressing gown.
What did she know about the little Arab girl her husband kissed three years later? "I can tell you the way Ali told you to have touched you at the front door Ali came home in a panic and said: I think the girl misunderstood me."
Together with her sister-in-law, she then went to the girl's family. "Our culture is more cautious about such a topic," her eldest son testified in court. "You apologize, even if nothing happened."
The 22-year-old is a trained police officer. His father had been "perfect" to him and his sisters: "I stand behind him." He understands the work of the undercover investigators: "That's their job."
The trio felt uncomfortably pretentious, but apparently his father had been very happy in the company of these people. "My dad drove sports cars and was traveling with them every day, he had a grin on his face." For the new friends, the parents had neglected their family and quarreled with their old friends.
In intercepted phone calls, the mother spoke differently
This assessment does not help the defense, if it argues that Ali K. the covert investigators for criminals and held fear of them - he had himself stated it to the police.
The son is touchingly honest during his testimony, much more honest than his mother, who in court downplayed and reinterpreted her husband's pedophile assault. Two supervised phone calls punish her statements: Once she told her friend that she does not trust her husband: "I'm scared because of my children," said Melek K. in the phone call. She asked her son to make sure Ali K. was never alone with her daughters.
In another phone call, she cursed her husband, asking him, "What's wrong with you? You're not normal, look for someone in the distance, but not in the eyes of your children!"
The eldest son said he often considered whether his father was actually a murderer: "We asked him in prison, 'Were you or not?' We looked him straight in the eye. "
Ali K. replied, "No, it was not me."
