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Lower Saxony to Brief Parliament on Friedland Teen’s Death and Unenforced Deportation Order

The session examines why a deportation to Lithuania ordered in March for the 31-year-old suspect was not carried out.

Overview

  • The interior and justice ministries are scheduled to update the state parliament’s interior committee today at 10:00, following a request from the AfD.
  • Prosecutors say DNA from a 31-year-old Iraqi was found on the victim’s shoulder, and he is being held in a psychiatric clinic under an Unterbringungsbefehl.
  • The 16-year-old, who had fled Ukraine with her family, was allegedly pushed in front of a freight train traveling about 100 km/h at Friedland station on August 11.
  • CDU parliamentary manager Carina Hermann urged Interior Minister Daniela Behrens to answer questions herself, but a spokesperson said she will not speak in the committee.
  • CSU politician Alexander Dobrindt cited systemic failures in asylum procedures, and Friedland’s mayor reported receiving more than 100 threatening emails after an NDR interview.