Overview

• Criminologist Susanne Beck cautioned that foregrounding a suspect’s nationality and residence status is discriminatory and hinders confronting the causes of crime.
• The local alliance “Friedland ist bunt” held a discussion day under the motto “Miteinander statt Gegeneinander” to discourage instrumentalization of the case and encourage dialogue.
• Organizers estimated up to 400 attendees at the event, while police counted about 200 participants.
• Authorities say a 31-year-old Iraqi allegedly pushed a 16-year-old into a passing freight train in Friedland on 11 August.
• The suspect had an enforceable deportation order to Lithuania since March, a court denied deportation detention in July, and he is currently held in a psychiatric clinic under an involuntary commitment order.