Georgine Krüger from Berlin has been missing for almost 14 years. Your body was not found. Now the verdict in the murder trial against the suspect (44) has been made in Berlin.
- Almost 14 years ago, the then 14-year-old Georgine Krüger disappeared from Berlin.
- A body was still not found.
- Now a 44-year-old was found guilty.
Update 16:31: Now the sentence in the case is known. The court sentenced the 44-year-old to life imprisonment for murder and rape. The verdict is not yet legally binding.
Update of March 17, 2020, 4:02 p.m .: Almost 14 years after the disappearance of Georgine Krüger, the Berlin district court found a 44-year-old man guilty of murder and rape.
With the judgment, the court essentially met the demands of the public prosecutor. Accordingly, the German with Turkish roots had lured Georgine into the basement of a tenement in the Moabit district on September 25, 2006. There he beat her unconscious, raped her and strangled her to cover up the crime.
Georgine (14) misses: body never found - mother with emotional outburst
First report from August 9, 2019 :
Berlin - In the case of Georgine, who disappeared from Berlin almost 13 years ago, the trial against her alleged murderer was continued on Friday. The family man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday (March 17, 2020).
Missing Georgine from Berlin: Trial of alleged murderer continued
The mother of the missing student testified in the trial against the urgent suspect. The disappearance of Georgine almost 13 years ago is a stroke of fate that has changed the whole family, said the 55-year-old. She was ill from the shock and still suffers from massive psychological problems. Her son was also "mentally broken". She had kept in touch with the police over the years and had never given up hope that her daughter was still alive.
A 44-year-old has to answer before the Berlin district court. He is accused of luring, raping and strangling the 14-year-old girl in a cellar in his Moabit apartment in September 2006. The body has not been found to date.
The accused in a courtroom. The 44-year-old is accused of raping and strangling 14-year-old Georgine Krüger.
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Where's the missing Georgine Krüger? The suspect is silent in court
The accused is said to have told a covert investigator that he had "disposed of" them in a dumpster in the yard of his house. After his arrest in late 2018, the German with Turkish roots rejected the allegations.
The puzzling absence of Georgine has been one of the best-known missing cases in Germany for years. It was only in 2017 that criminals came to the accused by radio cell evaluations and covert investigations. He is accused of murder to cover up another crime and serious rape.
The man, who has been detained since December 2018, is said to have disclosed the knowledge of the perpetrator to a covert investigator. In the process, he refuses to testify.
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