Overview
- Liana K., 16, was buried in Heiligenstadt with about 150 mourners present, and a Ukrainian-orthodox cleric led the ceremony.
- Thuringia’s AfD leader Björn Höcke attended the funeral, according to on-site reporting.
- The CDU submitted 147 questions to Lower Saxony’s government and requested access to police and administrative files related to the case.
- The inquiry presses why deportation or transfer to Lithuania did not occur and why a rejected bid for deportation custody was not appealed.
- Authorities say DNA linked the 31-year-old Iraqi suspect to the victim; he had a rejected 2022 asylum claim, a removal order since March, prior psychiatric treatment including a visit on August 10, and he is currently held in a psychiatric clinic under a court order.