As you all know by now, a German-Kazakh was recently murdered with a sword in Stuttgart by a “Palestinian” pretending to be a Syrian. Below are two videos with more news about the gruesome incident. Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.
The first video is a news report about an attempt by the German government to prosecute citizens who recorded and propagated videos of the bloody attack:
The second video is a report from Der Spiegel featuring detailed information about the atrocity and interviews with eyewitnesses. I was surprised to see the full name and unpixelated mug shot of the perp — I thought that kind of thorough reportage was not allowed in Germany:
Video transcript #1:
| 00:00 | Gruesome images have spread throughout the internet since yesterday evening’s crime. | |
| 00:05 | Images that we purposefully aren’t showing. Images and videos of a man stabbing | |
| 00:09 | another man with a sword-like object repeatedly, in the middle of the street in Stuttgart. | |
| 00:15 | The videos are 20 seconds long. Others are longer. These videos show the victim, | |
| 00:20 | the perpetrator and crime clearly. Depending on perspective, a car conceals the victim. | |
| 00:25 | On many videos, everything can be seen. Residents living in nearby apartment buildings | |
| 00:29 | recorded from their balconies and windows. The SWR [local news] received videos and images. | |
| 00:35 | This morning we received videos and images containing drastic violence of this murder, | |
| 00:43 | but for journalistic reasons we have decided quite deliberately not to show them, | |
| 00:47 | from an ethical standpoint. —Not every media outlet and politician decided that way. | |
| 00:52 | For example, AfD Chairman Alice Weidel published a video of the crime. | |
| 00:57 | According to German law, it’s punishable by law to film something like this or | |
| 01:01 | to make it public. It is also criminal to spread such material. Cases in which recordings do not | |
| 01:07 | show how the victim is being killed, because a car blocks the view, might be different legally. | |
| 01:12 | The Stuttgart police have formally requested that videos be deleted from social media websites. | |
| 01:17 | The public prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart is pursuing those who filmed. | |
| 01:21 | The public prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart is examining whether the persons who recorded | |
| 01:25 | the questionable videos of the crime and subsequently published them could possibly | |
| 01:30 | have made themselves liable to prosecution on the basis of § 201a paragraph 1 no. 2 StGB. | |
| 01:36 | So why do people film such gruesome crimes and make them public? | |
| 01:41 | Such crimes and the increase in the rubbernecking mentality of course lead to | |
| 01:45 | the government’s having to come up ways to legally sanction such behaviour to protect | |
| 01:49 | personal rights. To protect victims from being publicly exposed and humiliated. | |
| 01:58 | Not only politics is required to do something. Society must do something about this behaviour. |
Video transcript #2:
| 00:03 | Good evening and welcome to Spiegel TV. The automatic operation is almost always the same. | |
| 00:09 | First there are images of a gruesome crime, committed by a perpetrator with a migration background. | |
| 00:15 | And then the right-wing hate against refugees begins to spread throughout the internet. | |
| 00:20 | It wasn’t any different with the case of the sword killer in Stuttgart. | |
| 00:25 | It is difficult to bear, but not reporting on it isn’t an option. | |
| 00:30 | Henrik Neumann and Yasemin Yavuz about a refugee | |
| 00:35 | who possibly wasn’t even supposed to be in Germany. | |
| 00:43 | It is a Wednesday, approximately 6pm, when eyewitnesses in an apartment building in Stuttgart | |
| 00:47 | record these images. A man stabs his victim lying on the ground. | |
| 00:53 | The recordings are so gruesome, that we can only show portions of them. | |
| 00:59 | It wasn’t until the murderer completed his crime that he fled. The local residents are in shock. | |
| 01:05 | We realised something was happening during dinner. We think it is horrifying that something | |
| 01:09 | like this happens in broad daylight, right in front of our apartment building. | |
| 01:13 | The victim is 36-year-old Wilhelm L. The German-Kazakh | |
| 01:18 | was just arriving home with his 11-year-old daughter. | |
| 01:22 | His murderer ambushed him at the door of his apartment building | |
| 01:25 | and then executed him in the street. | |
| 01:28 | Soon afterwards the police arrived with a large contingent | |
| 01:32 | and cordoned off the area. The forensic team | |
| 01:35 | was able to find the murder weapon quickly in a hedge near | |
| 01:38 | the crime scene, but the murderer was still on the loose. | |
| 01:41 | Special forces teams combed the entire residential area, | |
| 01:45 | searching for the fugitive murderer for hours, until late evening. | |
| 01:49 | Three hours later the suspect is apprehended. | |
| 01:55 | As for the suspect, according to our information he’s | |
| 01:59 | a 28-year-old man who has been living in Germany since 2015 | |
| 02:03 | and is registered as a Syrian citizen. —Is this person known | |
| 02:07 | to the police? —Unfortunately, I can’t say more than | |
| 02:11 | the fact that this person was known to the police. | |
| 02:14 | I can’t elaborate to what degree, due to the investigation. | |
| 02:18 | The man’s name is Issa Mohammed. The 28-year-old | |
| 02:22 | arrived in Germany in February 2015 with the flood of refugees. | |
| 02:27 | He tells officials that he is Syrian. Just nine months later | |
| 02:31 | he receives his permanent residency permit. | |
| 02:34 | Issa becomes a criminal. He’s charged for various thefts and | |
| 02:37 | for disturbance and unlawful entry. On one occasion he is | |
| 02:40 | even charged for beating his pregnant girlfriend. | |
| 02:44 | An investigation into whether Issa was in Germany illegally started once it is too late. | |
| 02:52 | Up until the day of the crime, the alleged Syrian was moving around freely in Germany. | |
| 02:56 | In 2018, he moved to Stuttgart’s Fasanenhof district | |
| 02:59 | to Wilhelm L.’s place, who would later become his victim. | |
| 03:03 | Both of them live together with a third man in a shared apartment. | |
| 03:07 | Fights occur regularly between Issa and Wilhelm. | |
| 03:10 | He was always speaking too loudly on the phone and taking food from other roommates without asking. | |
| 03:15 | Neighbors in the building were aware of the loud fights that happened on a regular basis. | |
| 03:20 | That it got to this point is of course horrible, but it was unimaginable | |
| 03:25 | that it would go this far. After all that happened | |
| 03:29 | in that apartment building. Umpteen times the police | |
| 03:32 | had to come there during the night, and I could hardly sleep. | |
| 03:35 | The police took him away at least five times, | |
| 03:39 | and he resisted strongly. He threw stuff out the window, | |
| 03:44 | and some of it is still hanging on a tree. —At some point the situation is no longer tenable. | |
| 03:48 | Three months ago Issa moved out of the apartment. | |
| 03:51 | It is probable that Wilhelm L. kicked him out, and perhaps | |
| 03:55 | that was his death sentence. | |
| 04:00 | Leonard Piccinni is a good friend of the victim. He was at work | |
| 04:04 | when someone showed him the disturbing video. | |
| 04:07 | A documentation of excessive violence. | |
| 04:12 | I just see how he’s lying there, and realise my buddy is lying | |
| 04:17 | in the damn street. Some subhuman is stabbing him with whatever. | |
| 04:26 | He was lying there. Afterward, I just left work, | |
| 04:30 | completely distraught and in a panic. I tried calling him, but | |
| 04:35 | it went directly to voicemail. I left a message and then I came here. | |
| 04:38 | I was thinking as I drove here, maybe it’s just some | |
| 04:41 | sick internet hoax. I asked people and they confirmed that was what happened. That’s it. | |
| 04:56 | Other residents cannot forget the images either. | |
| 04:59 | Hilde Frech was watching as the victim tried to save himself by | |
| 05:02 | getting into a passing vehicle. —A woman driving by | |
| 05:07 | in a Smart car stopped and got out. She wanted to help. | |
| 05:12 | The other man didn’t want him to get into the car, so he hit him, stabbed him | |
| 05:16 | and pulled him out of the car throwing him onto the street. | |
| 05:21 | Then, with the sword he stabbed him in the stomach. | |
| 05:28 | It was insane. He stabbed him over and over. Someone told me | |
| 05:36 | that he cut his throat. He kept screaming, “Why did you do that?” | |
| 05:41 | The perpetrator? —Yes, the perpetrator. | |
| 05:47 | What the perpetrator intended is something the investigators | |
| 05:51 | are working to figure out, as well as where he actually comes from. | |
| 05:56 | There are indications that Issa Mohammed isn’t even his real name, | |
| 06:01 | and that he received his residence permit fraudulently. | |
| 06:05 | In official documents presented to Spiegel TV there is a comment about Issa Mohammed which states: | |
| 06:10 | “Unauthorized residence in federal territory”. It was noticed | |
| 06:15 | by responsible authorities only after the murder on August 1st. | |
| 06:22 | During his questioning he admitted that he comes from Jordan. A safe country of origin. | |
| 06:27 | Until we have a contrary finding that we can officially announce, | |
| 06:33 | we will stay with the original statement, | |
| 06:39 | that he is a Syrian citizen. Of course we are investigating | |
| 06:43 | every piece of evidence, we examine every aspect in order to | |
| 06:48 | establish his true identity, in the event there is one. | |
| 06:53 | But how could Issa Mohammed fool officials about his identity? | |
| 06:59 | During the refugee crisis of 2015, those coming from Syria and applying for | |
| 07:03 | asylum only had to fill out a simple questionnaire. | |
| 07:08 | Individual background checks with interviews weren’t possible, | |
| 07:11 | due to the authorities being overwhelmed. | |
| 07:14 | The resulting security loophole possibly led to the death of Wilhelm L. | |
| 07:18 | The sword murderer won’t talk about his motive | |
| 07:26 | for the bloody deed. The police assume a personal motive. | |
| 07:31 | For friends and acquaintances that remains inconceivable, | |
| 07:36 | because Wilhelm L. was well-liked in his social community. —It is so horrible. | |
| 07:42 | He was the kind of person that everyone got along with. | |
| 07:48 | If someone needed help he was always there, privately or professionally, | |
| 07:53 | you could always count on him. He was courteous, | |
| 07:59 | helpful, friendly, well-mannered, and he was my friend. | |
| 08:10 | There was supposed to be a birthday celebration with a cake, | |
| 08:19 | and his child was really looking forward to it. One day before his 37th birthday Wilhelm L. died. | |
| 08:35 | His murderer has now confessed to the crime. |
“Society must do something about this behaviour”? Sounds like shooting the messenger, alas all too common these days.
His murderer has now confessed to the crime.
– Funny