Almost eight months after the fatal fall of a 15-year-old victim from a high-rise building in Hamburg, a trial against 10 young Syrian men has begun in Hamburg. Adding to the intense emotion of the trial is the father, Ali Ibrahim, who arrived at the trial holding a photo of his son. On top of the allegations, there are questions about how old the suspects truly are.
One of the startling facts about the trial is the possibility that the true age of five of the ten suspects remains unknown. Their birthdays are listed as Jan. 1, which is significant. Remix News reported six years ago on this trend, which showed that there are more than 400,000 migrants with their birthday listed as Jan. 1 in Germany. The information indicates that authorities do not know their birthdate or even their country of origin.
The birthdate Jan. 1 was assigned to all migrants who entered the country without documentation. In many cases, migrants are suspected of claiming they were under 18 and from Syria in order to hide their true age and origin, all for personal benefit and asylum protection.
In this case, five of the ten suspects with Jan. 1 birthdates may actually be older than they say. If this is true, their current “juvenile” status would be false, and they could be charged as adults. As it stands, nine out of ten of them are being tried only as minors.
In an opening statement, lawyer Patrick Purbacher says: “April 14, 2025, was the worst day of my client’s life.”
The victim is said to have tried to escape from the apartment in the Wilstorf district on the night of April 14. During his attempt to escape his attackers, he fell to his death from the balcony on the eighth floor. Before that, eight young men are said to have broken into the apartment and attacked the four people present.
The 10 Syrians are standing trial at the Grand Criminal Chamber. The public prosecutor’s office accuses seven of them of particularly serious robbery resulting in death, along with charges of grievous bodily harm. Three other adolescents are charged with “aiding and abetting.”
The trial is being conducted mostly as a juvenile court trial, as nine of the ten defendants were young people or adolescents during the crime.
The trial was closed to the public after the indictment was read out.
“Each of the defendants made a contribution to the crime, incurred great guilt and would have to bear the consequences,” said Purbacher on behalf of his client, Ali Ibrahim, and the rest of the family.
He added that the suspects would be given “the opportunity for forgiveness,” but this would only apply for those who told what really happened during the crime. Anyone who does not confess can only hope for forgiveness from God, but not from the victim’s family.
After the defense attorneys requested that the public be excluded, Purbacher followed up with a statement asking what the defendants are afraid of. He told them they should imagine what fear his client’s son had shortly before his death.
Purbacher is strictly against the exclusion of the public from the trial, and he wants the case to be open to all of Germany.
Furthermore, he said that five of the ten defendants have their birthdays on Jan. 1, which is not credible for the co-plaintiff. He argues that their ages must be checked by medical authorities. As has been shown in many other cases in Europe, bone checks on “minor” migrants have revealed that they are actually adults in the majority of cases.
The court has scheduled 32 more trial days until March 25.
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