Germany: Mia’s Killer Is 20 Years Old, by
On December 27., Abdul D. ambushed his
ex-girlfriend Mia in a supermarket in Kandel (Rhineland-Palatinate) and killed
her with a knife stab in her heart.
An original translation from Bild, Germany.ABDUL D. LIED ABOUT
HIS AGE. Scandal about age of Mia’s Killer. Abdul D. killed Mia. When he
applied for asylum, the Afghan lied, saying he was only 14.
There
were early doubts about the Afghan’s age. Photos suggested that he could not
possibly be 15 years old.
The background: When Abdul D. came to
Germany in April 2016, he stated that he was 14 years old. As he did not state
an exact date of birth, the Youth Welfare Office in charge in Frankfurt/Main
assigned him January 1, 2002, as birthday.
For this reason, he and Mia went to the
same school. His age was neither verified when he entered the country, nor
later – a deadly mistake.
Only after the deed, the Prosecutor had
his carpus, his teeth, and the collarbone x-rayed for an extensive medical
report. Yesterday, Prosecution Landau published the findings.
The press release says: In his report,
the expert comes to the conclusion that the accused is most likely
approximately 20 years old. The expert determines his absolute minimum current
age to be 17 1/2 years“.
Politicians demand consequences! Andrea
Lindholz (47, CSU), chairman of the Bundestag home affairs committee, says to
Bild: “The age should be examined systematically, and nationwide consistently,
in the new anchor centres. Medical examinations must not be taboo. Also older
cases where there is a reasonable doubt about their age should be examined in
hindsight, and corrected systematically“.
Desperate to separate men from boys, Germany now pushing forward with new age test for asylum seekers, by Ann Corcoran, 9/6/18.
But now, in the charged political atmosphere that has accompanied the arrival of millions of refugees to Europe, forensic scientists across the continent are joining forces to improve epigenetic-clock-based tests with a focus on whether they might be used to help determine the age of refugees whose claims to be under 18 are disputed.
A call for sensitivity (really!)
The
news is in the science magazine Nature (thanks
to reader James for sending it). And, why are they getting desperate?
Being registered as an asylum seeker under the age of 18 is a ticket to the
good times in Europe and in the US! The great flood of “unaccompanied
minors” across the world, many of whom are grown men claiming to be teens, is
one of the greatest scams being perpetrated on ‘welcoming’ countries such as
Germany.
But
horrible murder cases, where the victim is a German woman (young or old!), has
caused the heretofore complacent Germans to get out of their comfort zones and
into the streets.
Here
is a bit of what Nature says:
European scientists seek ‘epigenetic clock’ to determine age of refugees.
When local authorities in Hildesheim, Germany, didn’t believe an asylum
seeker who claimed to be under 18 years old and thus eligible for privileged
treatment, police turned to a blood-based age test sold by a California
company.
The test, offered by Zymo Research in Irvine, uses chemical
modifications to DNA that accrue over a lifetime, called an ‘epigenetic clock’,
to determine a person’s age.
Forensic scientists aware of its potential benefits but also of its current
lack of precision, sounded an alarm.
In
a paper published online1 in May, a team led by forensic-medicine specialist
Stefanie Ritz-Timme of the University of Dusseldorf in Germany said that these tests
were not ready for use in sensitive forensic evaluations.
They
hope that, with time, such tests could replace existing methods, which assess
the maturity of bones or teeth to determine an individual’s age but are
imprecise, and can be controversial.
“The
race is now on to develop a more accurate clock that would be more predictive
than the anatomical tests — and also more practical for use in forensic
science,” says cell biologist Wolfgang Wagner at the University of Aachen,
Germany. He has teamed up with other German forensic scientists to overcome
these challenges, not only for the test’s use on refugees, but also for other
forensic uses.
The
development of scientific methods that could feed into decisions about who is
granted asylum and how refugees are treated are likely to elicit criticism,
says Denise Syndercombe-Court, a forensic geneticist at King’s College London.
She says that some scientists, herself included, are wary of these efforts.
But Niels Morling, a forensic geneticist at the University of
Copenhagen who is running a national epigenetic-clock programme, defends the
development of tests that are more accurate. Given that the law treats those under
18 very differently from adults, he says, then “you have a duty to make sure
that it can be implemented fairly”.
Since
2014, Europe has received around 4 million refugees, many of whom arrived
without identity documents. More than 1.5 million refugees have
sought asylum in Germany, around one-third of whom are registered as minors. In Europe, minor status usually leads to
better care and an increased chance of being granted asylum. Minors also have a higher chance than adults
of gaining permission for family members to join them. And, if convicted of a
crime, people under 18 usually receive shorter sentences served in special
prisons for juveniles.
Much more here.
I
sure do hope we are using this test in America!
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my complete ‘Invasion of Europe’ files.
Comments
How about requiring
migrants to produce a valid Birth Certificate.
Migrants who don’t have one are turned away.
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