Germans hold Kosovo Albanian man who walked street with sister-in-law's severed head

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[Destro]

Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Germans hold man who walked street with sister-in-law's severed head

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP): A 24-year-old man who was detained walking down a shopping street with his sister-in-law's severed head in one hand and a knife in the other was being questioned Wednesday by prosecutors.

Police found the 25-year-old woman's bloody torso Tuesday in her apartment in the village of Uebach-Palenberg near the Belgian-Dutch border in western Germany.

Neighbors said they had heard the woman screaming in the apartment during an argument with the suspect. Shortly afterward, police stopped the man as he walked down the village shopping street carrying the women's head and a 30-centimeter (12-inch) kitchen knife.

"We cannot say anything definite yet about the motive or the exact sequence of events,'' said Robert Deller, a prosecutor in the western city of Aachen.

The man, an ethnic Albanian from the Serb province of Kosovo, was being questioned through an interpreter, Deller said. An autopsy on the woman's body was scheduled later Wednesday.

[Destro]

Got to love that head hunting Islamic culture!

[Destro]

bump

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, I hope they didn't detain him long -- he probably had things to do.

Also, I'm going out on a limb here, but I think the autopsy will show that the woman died from having her head cut off.

[MattinNJ]

May Clinton rot in hell for bombing our Christian allies to support the drug running, terroristic, KLA.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Guy with head in one hand and knife in the other: "I know that this looks bad, but it's not what you think."

[Blood of Tyrants]

Maybe, but he could have cut off her head post mortem.

[genefromjersey]

Hi ! This is my sister-in-law .

She used to do a lot of talking, but is, at the moment, not available for comment. Are you, Helga ?
( Shakes the head .)

There. You see ?

[harpseal]

I am shocked that German police were so culturally insensitive as to stop a man walking down the street holding a severed head. How did they know this was not a religous mandate from his culture like honor killings?

[Destro]

trophy....

[lsee]

It was one of those "honor killings" we hear so much about. Can't prosecute him if it's his "culture", now, can we?

[TheCrusader]

Maybe it's just the Islamic way of curing a headache? It's the "religion of peace" you know.

[Destro]

Albanian Code of Lek

[genefromjersey]

More like " Religion of Pieces " in this case.

[cherry]

I am sure he did it out of frustration of the terribly unjust court system that favors women.....iows, she made him do it..../sarcasm/

[mikeIII]

What the hell is this bizarre fixation of Islam with severed human heads? Is this a glorified ritual that scores points in paradise?

[Destro]

It is in the Koran as a Allah approved of method to execute heretics/infidels.

[Redleg Duke]

I need to introduce this guy to my sister-in-law!

[A. Pole]

I am shocked that German police were so culturally insensitive as to stop a man walking down the street holding a severed head. How did they know this was not a religous mandate from his culture like honor killings?

Brave KLA freedom fighters have right to let some steam out after suffering centuries of Serbian oppression and genocide.

[tracer]

Even worse, he could have cut off her head after she died.....

[tracer]

It later was reported that police followed a trail of blood leading back to a South African ethnic grocery store (see related thread)....

[Delbert]

That was wrong ;) but funny.

[Billthedrill]

I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation.

I mean, you go walking around with kitchen knives and severed hands in hand and the first thing you know the cops are profiling you...

[Oberon]

Well, I hope they didn't detain him long -- he probably had things to do.

Like... go bowling?

[MHGinTN]

Calling Mark Garagos, calling Mark Garagos, clean-up on isle Uebach-Palenberg. Client awaiting call. Attention Mark Garagos, pick up the red courtesy phone (carefully).

[Ugly Truth]

He didn't want to pay full price for Head and Shoulders? The guy doesn't even speak their language, and I'll bet he's collecting their welfare, or whatever their equivalent is.

Sure wish I can live off of another society, as it is, they only live off of mine.

[joan]

Update:

Man Arrested with Severed Head Says Was Provoked

Wed May 7, 2003 10:59 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - A man arrested after walking through town swinging the severed head of his sister-in-law by the hair told police she had provoked him, German prosecutors said on Wednesday.

The 24-year-old man admitted stabbing the woman to death and cutting off her head with a 12-inch kitchen knife after a row, a spokesman at the prosecutors' office in the western city of Aachen said. "The man said he had been provoked before the deed," the spokesman said, but gave no details.

Shocked passers-by had alerted police after seeing the wild-eyed man, carrying the head in one hand and a blood-stained knife in the other, walking through the streets of Uebach-Palenberg, a small town near Aachen.

One witness told the newspaper Bild: "He kept swinging the head by the hair, holding it up like a trophy and showing it to people. His eyes were wide open as though he was on drugs."

Police found his sister-in-law's headless body in his flat.

The prosecutors' office said police were investigating the man's mental state at the time of the attack.

Bild reported that the man was having an affair with his sister-in-law but she wanted to end it.

[freedomlover]

Bild reported that the man was having an affair with his sister-in-law but she wanted to end it.

That would do it.

[freedomlover]

Maybe she got her body caught under a boulder and he just helped her out.

[MinuteGal]

HOLD MUH KOPF ALERT !!!!!!

Leni

[eniapmot]

The funny thing is, when I went to linked star site, I was confronted with a pop-up ad for Bank Islam.

[eniapmot]

I see that, in the update, they have taken out any reference to the decapitator being a Moslem immigrant.

[Destro]

That's why it's important to document the things before they wise up!

[geedee]

He would be suing the cops in the U.S. for arresting him . . . not enough probable cause.