two disturbing cases in the United States and Germany – Liberation

In the back of a Mercedes parked in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, a body, that of a woman, stabbed with more than 50 stab wounds, found in the middle of August 2022. She was stabbed with a such violence that his face is “completely disfigured”, according to a German police spokesman. Summoned, several members of his family identify him formally. There’s no doubt, it’s her, it’s their daughter: Sharaban K., 23, a young beautician of Iraqi origin living in Munich. The autopsy is less categorical. The forensic doctors will reveal that this bruised body has another name: Khadidja O., same age, and same features. This blogger established in the neighboring region of Baden-Württemberg looks like Sharaban K. It is the latter, finally arrested on August 19 by the Bavarian police, who orchestrated and perpetrated the murder of her lookalike, to believe in his own disappearance, explains the Guardian.

Helped in her macabre enterprise by her companion, Sheqir K., a 23-year-old Kosovar, Sharaban K. was trying to fake her death to disappear far from her family because of their differences, according to the latest statements from the Ingolstadt prosecutor, the January 30, when the investigation is about to be closed. She is not the first to want to take advantage of the assassination of her doppelganger. In mirror, another business, American this time. This Thursday, Viktoria N., 47, was convicted of attempted murder, assault and robbery, the district attorney of Queens, New York announced in a statement. In question ? On August 28, 2016, Viktoria N. drove to the home of a 35-year-old woman in the Forest Hills neighborhood with a poisoned cheesecake under her arm.

“Spectacular Twist”

The victim, found the next day unconscious in her bed in the middle of scattered pills as if she had wanted to commit suicide, had to be hospitalized but she survived. On returning home, she found that her passport and work permit card had been stolen. Because if the two women were not the same age, they shared other characteristics: “dark hair”, “complexion” similar, “same traits”, “Russian speakers”relate NBC News. “She put a deadly drug in a slice of cheesecake so she could unsuspectingly steal her victim’s most prized possession: her identity.” said the Queens prosecutor, adding that “the defendant deserves to be held accountable for her crime with a long prison sentence”.

Viktoria N. is said to have found her victim, a beautician, by chance: she had her eyebrows plucked by someone who shared some of her features. And it was on the pretext of thanking her for her work that she again approached him with the famous cheesecake. Sharaban K., she had long searched on Instagram for a corresponding profile and sent several messages to try to approach potential look-alikes. With her companion, Sheqir K., they managed to convince Khadidja O. to find them in order to obtain beauty products for her influencer activity. “We don’t have a case like this every day, with such a spectacular twistcommented a police spokesperson in the columns of the German daily Bild. The day we found the body, nothing prepared us for such an outcome.”