Germany in Turmoil: Ukrainian Teenage Girl Pushed to Death by Illegal Iraqi Migrant
A sixteen-year-old Ukrainian refugee was killed in Lower Saxony after being pushed onto train tracks by a thirty-one-year-old Iraqi migrant who had been slated for deportation since 2022. He was arrested after DNA evidence tied him to the crime and has been placed in a psychiatric facility.
Germany is facing public uproar after the killing of a sixteen-year-old Ukrainian girl, who fled the war in her homeland, and was allegedly murdered by an illegal Iraqi migrant.
Prosecutors reported that the man, aged thirty-one, pushed the teenager onto railway tracks at Friedland station in Lower Saxony on August 11.
The victim, identified as Liana K., had arrived in Germany with her family from Mariupol after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to investigators, the migrant suddenly shoved the girl onto the tracks while she was speaking with her grandfather by phone.
He reportedly heard her screams in the final moments before the train struck.
Police were called to the scene after receiving a complaint about a “man behaving aggressively” at the station.
Officers found the suspect intoxicated, which led them to the girl’s body nearby.
Locals later described him as “a terrible man, completely insane.”
The investigation uncovered multiple failures in the immigration system.
The suspect, identified as Mohammed A., had his asylum claim rejected in December 2022 and was meant to be deported to Lithuania, the country through which he entered the European Union.
He appealed the decision, but only in February 2025 did the court dismiss his challenge.
In July, immigration authorities sought to detain him for deportation, but the court rejected the request, calling it “so defective that it could not even be considered.”
Initially, police suspected the girl’s death may have been accidental or a suicide.
Only after discovering large amounts of the suspect’s DNA on her shoulder did investigators determine it was murder.
“The quantity indicated a forceful push, not incidental contact,” the prosecutor confirmed.
Following psychiatric evaluation, the suspect, who refused to cooperate with investigators and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, was transferred to a secure psychiatric institution.
Prosecutors are now assessing whether he is fit to stand trial.
Investigators also revealed that Mohammed A. used multiple identities.
“We are now checking several names,” they stated, adding that the girl was “an arbitrary victim.”
The killing sparked widespread anger in Germany.
The Interior Minister of Lower Saxony, from the Social Democratic Party, admitted, “We cannot explain to citizens how people remain in Germany for years when another EU state is responsible for them.” Markus Janitzki, Mayor of Geisleden, who had known the family since their arrival, described Liana as “a diligent and beloved girl who quickly learned German and became a role model for her younger siblings.”
In a media interview, her mother recalled the final call with her daughter: “Liana was speaking to her grandfather on the phone just before she was pushed.
He said her voice sounded worried.” Rejecting early police suggestions of accident or suicide, she said, “She had big plans for the future.
She had just started an internship at a dental clinic two months ago.
This was not an accident.”
Prosecutors reported that the man, aged thirty-one, pushed the teenager onto railway tracks at Friedland station in Lower Saxony on August 11.
The victim, identified as Liana K., had arrived in Germany with her family from Mariupol after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to investigators, the migrant suddenly shoved the girl onto the tracks while she was speaking with her grandfather by phone.
He reportedly heard her screams in the final moments before the train struck.
Police were called to the scene after receiving a complaint about a “man behaving aggressively” at the station.
Officers found the suspect intoxicated, which led them to the girl’s body nearby.
Locals later described him as “a terrible man, completely insane.”
The investigation uncovered multiple failures in the immigration system.
The suspect, identified as Mohammed A., had his asylum claim rejected in December 2022 and was meant to be deported to Lithuania, the country through which he entered the European Union.
He appealed the decision, but only in February 2025 did the court dismiss his challenge.
In July, immigration authorities sought to detain him for deportation, but the court rejected the request, calling it “so defective that it could not even be considered.”
Initially, police suspected the girl’s death may have been accidental or a suicide.
Only after discovering large amounts of the suspect’s DNA on her shoulder did investigators determine it was murder.
“The quantity indicated a forceful push, not incidental contact,” the prosecutor confirmed.
Following psychiatric evaluation, the suspect, who refused to cooperate with investigators and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, was transferred to a secure psychiatric institution.
Prosecutors are now assessing whether he is fit to stand trial.
Investigators also revealed that Mohammed A. used multiple identities.
“We are now checking several names,” they stated, adding that the girl was “an arbitrary victim.”
The killing sparked widespread anger in Germany.
The Interior Minister of Lower Saxony, from the Social Democratic Party, admitted, “We cannot explain to citizens how people remain in Germany for years when another EU state is responsible for them.” Markus Janitzki, Mayor of Geisleden, who had known the family since their arrival, described Liana as “a diligent and beloved girl who quickly learned German and became a role model for her younger siblings.”
In a media interview, her mother recalled the final call with her daughter: “Liana was speaking to her grandfather on the phone just before she was pushed.
He said her voice sounded worried.” Rejecting early police suggestions of accident or suicide, she said, “She had big plans for the future.
She had just started an internship at a dental clinic two months ago.
This was not an accident.”
