A
27-year-old Nigerian migrant has been arrested in Switzerland after
murdering a 22-year-old asylum home worker in Germany and then
fleeing the country.
The
Nigerian was arrested Tuesday at a train station in the Swiss city of
Bern after a Europe-wide arrest warrant was issued for him after he
fled Ahaus where the murder occurred. Chief prosecutor Martin
Botzenhardt said, “Only yesterday, the prosecutor’s office
ordered the European-wide call for arrest on the basis of the
existing national arrest warrant.
Today’s
arrest of the suspect in Switzerland is a quick success,” Swiss
paper Blick reports. “The prosecutor’s office in
Münster has initiated the formal extradition request,”
said Botzenhardt. “The murder commission will not question the
suspect until after his arrival in Germany.”
According
to police, the 27-year-old savagely stabbed his victim, identified as
Soopika P., repeatedly in the head, neck and upper body. The young
woman was left with no chance of survival.
German
tabloid Bild reports Soopika
was well
known in
Ahaus and was popular. One of her friends told the paper, “Many
knew her, she was a really nice girl. Because her own family comes
from India and she has very good English, she has been involved in
refugee aid.”
The
motive for the crime was likely sexual desire as authorities noted
the asylum seeker had repeatedly tried to get in contact with
Soopika. The attraction was not mutual according to one of the
victim’s friends who said she had no interest in a relationship as
she had just broken up with her boyfriend.
The
case of Soopika’s murder is just the latest of a number of murders
of women who have worked with asylum seekers. The most famous case in
Germany was that of Maria Ledenburger who was raped
and killed by a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker on her
way home. Like Soopika, Ladenburger also volunteered her time helping
asylum seekers.
A
similar murder also occurred in Sweden last year when a Somali
migrant stabbed asylum
center worker Alexandra Mezher to death in a home for underage
migrants.
The
asylum seeker turned out not to be underage after
police investigated his background leading many to question the
methods used by the Swedish government to determine the actual age of
migrants.
Austria
also saw a migrant murder a woman who was trying to help him last
year. An American working as an au pair in Vienna
was strangled to
death by a Gambian migrant in her apartment after letting him stay
there to avoid deportation. He was also captured in Switzerland
after fleeing the country.
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