German court convicts couple who killed two Ukrainian women to kidnap baby
www.pravda.com.ua
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:54:00 +0200
The land court of the German city of Mannheim has put on trial a couple who killed a Ukrainian woman and her mother in order to pass off the younger womans child as their own.
Source European Pravda with reference to Spiegel Details At the beginning of the trial, both defendants confessed to the crimes read out in a statement by their lawyers.
They expressed remorse for what had happened.
According to the indictment, the woman and her husband killed a 27yearold woman and her 51yearold mother in March 2024 in order to pass off the younger womans fiveweekold baby as their own.
The prosecutors office noted that the motive for the crime was that the 45yearold woman and her 43yearold husband from Sandhausen near Heidelberg had long been planning to have a daughter together.
Their nationality has not been disclosed, but earlier reports mentioned that the woman was Russian and the man was German.
The wife was specifically looking for contact with Ukrainian refugees and joined a Telegram group to support them, prosecutors said.
Thats how she met a 27yearold woman who was looking for help with translation in connection with the upcoming birth of her daughter.
The mother, grandmother and baby were staying in a refugee shelter in the RheinNeckar district at the time of the crime.
The baby, who is about eleven months old, now lives with her aunt in Ukraine.
The woman is a coplaintiff in the case.
The trial has nine days of hearings.
The verdict may be announced on 21 February.
Background The body of the Ukrainian woman was found on the banks of the Rhine a few days after the family disappeared from the refugee shelter where they were living, and two weeks later the body of her mother was found as well.
The newborn girl was found unharmed.
In June, a nineyearold Ukrainian girl Valeriia was murdered in Dbeln.
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