Ali Bashar Ahmad Zebari, a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Iraqi Kurdistan,[2][3][4][5][6] confessed to the murder and was found guilty in July 2019 at a trial in Landgericht Wiesbaden.
They’re keeping me here.”[8] Her remains were found by police in early June buried near the Ländches Railway line,[9] after they had been tipped off about the location by a 13-year-old migrant who lived in the same refugee station as Zebari.
[6] According to Stefan Müller, the head of police for western Hesse, Zebari had probably migrated to Germany in October 2015 as part of a wave of other migrants.
[10][14] According to Tarik Ahmad, the police chief of Dohuk where the suspect was arrested, Zebari confessed to strangling Feldmann but denied raping her.
[20] In Germany, Romann was sued for illegally depriving the suspect of his liberty,[8][21][22][23] but proceedings were stopped in January 2019 on the grounds that the extradition had been initiated by Iraqi authorities.
[20] Based on information provided by the Iraqi government, Prosecutor Oliver Kuhn said that the suspect was probably older than his German documents state.
[14] This incident was one of a series of high-profile crimes by asylum seekers that led to a fraught political conversation about German migrant policy and hardened anti-immigration sentiments.