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Anthony and Soopika Paramanathan |
Prosecutors said the 28-year-old Anthony brutally murdered his girlfriend Soopika Paramanathan, a 22-year-old German student known locally as the “Angel of Ahaus” for her volunteer work with refugees.
According to a report by a German tabloid Bild, the police in Germany have not released Anthony’s full last name.
Anthony who came to Germany in 2015 after spending three years in Italy reportedly attacked Paramanathan on February 11th 2017 after she ended their relationship, prosecutors said. He allegedly stabbed her repeatedly with a long-bladed knife in her head, neck and breasts. He was said to have stabbed the lady 22 times.
Paramanathan sprayed his face with pepper spray in defence and was raced to a local hospital but later died after suffering substantial blood loss.
He was stuffing Paramanathan’s body into a large suitcase on the street when witnesses said they spotted him. He escaped from the crime scene and was caught by police in Basel, Switzerland two days later.
Anthony wrote in his asylum application that he was forced to leave his country in 2012 for being homosexual and he had fought against the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. The application was in the process of being rejected, because it dripped with lies.
He is facing life imprisonment when an expected guilty verdict is handed down on September 20.
The couple met in 2016 at a local refugee home in Ahaus, Germany, where Anthony was living and Paramanathan volunteered.
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