Veronika born: 1992
Strangled: 30 August 2014
Residence: Fürth (Franken)
Origin: Victim: Germany; perpetrator: Lebanon
Children: one son (4 months)
Perpetrator: her friend Faysal El Hassan (43 years)
The 22-year-old Veronika has a four-month-old son with her friend Faysal, a stateless person from Lebanon. His profession is referred to as bar owner. Or he works in a bar.
The two had met about 4 years earlier in a discotheque and had probably been a couple for about a year and a half. The police were called in several times for domestic violence. Faysal has a criminal record. A friend says there were problems when Veronika wanted to go out.
On August 30, 2014, Faysal will strangle the young mother. A neighbour finds the body and informs the police. The perpetrator flees, but is arrested two days later in Nuremberg. Someone recognized him in a parking lot and called the police. The baby is placed in a foster family, later with his grandparents.
In July 2015, the lawsuit will start at the regional court of Nuremberg-Fürth. In July, the perpetrator is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for manslaughter.