“In the Land Court of the German city of Mannheim, a couple who killed a Ukrainian woman and her mother in order to pass off the younger woman’s child as their own began to be tried. Source: “European Truth” with reference to Spiegel Details: At the beginning of the trial, both defendants confessed to the crimes in statements read by their lawyers.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
In the Land Court of the German city of Mannheim, a couple who killed a Ukrainian woman and her mother in order to pass off the younger woman’s child as their own began to be tried.
Source: “European truth” with reference to Spiegel
Details: At the start of the trial, both defendants admitted to the crimes in statements read by their lawyers. They expressed remorse for what had happened.
According to the indictment, the woman and her husband killed the 27-year-old woman and her 51-year-old mother last March in order to pass off the younger woman’s five-week-old baby as their own.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the motive for the crime was that a 45-year-old woman and her 43-year-old husband from Sandhausen, near Heidelberg, had long been harboring the desire to have a daughter together. Their nationalities are not disclosed, but earlier reports mentioned that the suspects are a Russian woman and a German.
The wife specifically sought contact with Ukrainian refugees and joined a Telegram group to support them, the prosecutor’s office said.
That’s how she met a 27-year-old girl who was looking for help with translation in connection with the upcoming birth of her daughter. The mother, grandmother and baby were in a refugee shelter in the Rhine-Neckar district at the time of the crime.
The baby, who is about eleven months old, now lives with his aunt in Ukraine. The woman acts as a co-plaintiff in the case. A total of nine days of hearings are scheduled for the trial. The verdict may be announced on February 21.
We will remind: The body of a Ukrainian woman was found on the banks of the Rhine a few days after the family disappeared from the refugee shelter where they lived, and later the body of the mother was discovered. The newborn girl was found unharmed.
In June, the murder of 9-year-old Ukrainian Valeria in Debelna caused a stir.