We need your help now
Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.
You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.
If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.
Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
By continuing, you are indicating that you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
A GERMAN MAN suspected of kidnapping and killing a four-year-old Bosnian refugee has admitted to murdering another child, police have said.
“The man confessed overnight that he had also killed Elias,” said Berlin police spokesman Stefan Redlich, referring to a six-year-old German boy who has been missing since July.
Following the confession, Elias’ body was found in a garden allotment, sources said.
Both children were victims of sex crimes, German news agency DPA said without citing its sources.
A child’s body
The man was arrested yesterday after his mother told police that he may have been involved in the kidnapping of the Bosnian boy, Mohamed Januzi.
In the suspect’s car police found the body of a child, which was packed in cat litter and which appeared to have been dead for some time.
Prosecutors said the body, which was undergoing an autopsy, was likely to be that of Mohamed.
IBTimes UK / TwitterBody found in Berlin car trunk in search for missing migrant boy #MohamedJanuzihttps://t.co/sR1GD9a5F8 #Germany pic.twitter.com/Po9syHnqfW
— IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) October 29, 2015
The boy had been missing since October 1, when his mother took him and his sisters to Berlin’s main refugee registration centre known as Lageso which receives hundreds of asylum seekers daily.
CCTV footage
The family has been living in Germany for more than a year and the mother had gone to the registration centre that day to obtain her social allowances, according to local media.
Police subsequently issued CCTV footage of a bearded man leading a child away who was holding a stuffed toy.
“Mohamed was already dead on October 2, the day after his kidnapping,” police spokesman Redlich said, adding that the suspect had admitted to that during interrogation.
As Germany gears up to receive up to one million asylum seekers this year, Berlin’s Lageso has seen lengthy queues of migrants waiting to be registered and often chaotic scenes.
Fights have broken out at the centre among migrants frustrated by the long waits and a lack of information filtering down from authorities.
- © AFP 2015.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Sick people! Poor angels RIP
What a horrible thing to happen , the poor child. People like this sicko should be hung publicly!
Dirty paedophiles will take advantage of the total anarchy Merkel has inflicted on her country.
How exactly in 2015 can Bosnians claim refugee status?
That was your takeaway message from this story?
similar to the way Serbs,Kosovars,Albanians,Uzbeks,Tajiks,Georgians,Nigerians do…Asylum is the gift that keeps on giving..
FFS!
Should hand him over to the family end off the only thing I’d insist on is that they cannot kill him quick
Our hearts go out to those who are caught in the tyranny of oppression through asylum seeking both locally and internationally. Whilst many would love to return to their native lands which is impossible due to oppression, depression and war, they are greeted with a whirlwind of turmoil, criminality and politics.
poor pet
RIP to those two little boys.
@Phil Somers. This is a terrible crime but to label the host countries, the benefactors, as the oppressors is ridiculous and carrying victimhood to the extreme.
And what about the host countries who have to contend with refugee cultural problems such as honour killings one of which was carried out in Germany very recently.
—-”’A Muslim man has confessed to strangling his 19-year-old daughter to death with his bare hands after learning from police she had been caught shoplifting condoms to have sex with her forbidden boyfriend—”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/germany-muslim-strangles-daughter-to-death-in-honor-killing-after-she-was-caught-stealing-condoms.
.
The last two paragraphs are badly placed. Younger eyes will end up sharing the lack of respect for the dead often shown by the media. Your telling of the news is often also a lesson to the youth, try to maintain dignity and you will do no harm.
What happen is sad, BUT HOW COME BOSNIAN CLAIM REFUGEE IN EUROPE ? THERE IS NO WAR NOTHING IN BOSNIA, ANGELA MERKEL HAS MADE EUROPE FREE FOR ALL,, 80% REFUGEES ARE NOT FROM SYRIA
Never opt for the death penalty,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
…………….its too easy
How CAN BOSNIAN ASK FOR REFUGEE ?? WHY CANT THEY GO TO ANY 57 MUSLIM COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ? WHY COME TO EUROPE ?
have your say