A couple have gone on trial in Germany for allegedly stabbing to death a man they believed to be a pedophile, after he made contact with their 12-year-old daughter over Facebook, a social network site.
Prosecutors in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said on Tuesday in Aachen (Germany) that the couple are accused of extortion and murdering the 29-year-old man, identified as Christian L, in August last year.
The prosecutors said it was believe the pair decided to kill the man after he wrote on their daughter’s Facebook page that he wanted to meet her.
They said the couple had suspected that he had wanted more from the contact with their daughter.
According to prosecutors, the couple, through the help of a friend, lured Christian L to a quiet back road and then stabbed him.
Under Germany’s strict privacy laws, the names of those involved in court cases are often not published in full.
They disclosed that the couple believed that Christian L had wanted to make contact with a child and had photos of their daughter on his mobile phone.
Prosecutors said the pair had initially made a police complaint against Christian L, but investigators considered the charges against him to be unfounded and the case was dropped.
According to the report, along with the couple’s friend, another co-defendant in the case, who was looking after the couple’s children at the time of the alleged murder, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
dpa/NAN.
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