In August 2015, he applied for asylum with the federal police at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof under the name Ahmad M. and claimed to be born in 1998.
He later left Hamburg and in November 2015 applied to a facility for minor refugees in Flensburg and his asylum application was later rejected.
[8] Ahmad S. had narcissistic personality disorder and he showed despair not due to mourning but over losing his control over his ex-girlfriend.
In conjunction with the defence lawyer's plea, the accused delivered a statement in his native tongue which was translated by an interpreter.
[2] Integration advisor Claudia Guenther criticised authorities in Flensburg which apparently had failed to anticipate his true age by not asking Ahmad S. if he had worked before arriving in Germany, as well as failing to realize that he already spoke some German when he arrived at the facility in Flensburg and therefore had likely spent a significant amount of time in the country.
Authorities had also not made clear to Ahmad S. that if he gave false information over his birth country or age, it would damage his prospects of a long-term stay in Germany.
Outside the building of chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Stralsund, anti-Islamic protesters placed funeral candles together with photos of young women who had been stabbed to death.