Murder of a girl in Upper Austria
Saber A. claims: “Michelle fell into my knife”
On December 8, a 16-year-old girl from Upper Austria died. In her childhood bedroom. Her Afghan boyfriend is said to have murdered her. The tragic end to a relationship drama that lasted years. From which the girl could not escape. Because no one helped him. During interrogations, Saber A. (17) claimed in a calm voice: "Michelle's death was an accident." He was "shocked" afterwards, covered up the body - "and slept for a few hours afterwards."
On the evening of December 8, Michelle F. and Saber A. bunkered down once again. In the 16-year-old's room in her mother's apartment in Steyr. The two teenagers were lying in bed. They listened to music, smoked, drank alcohol. They kissed and made plans for the future.
But at some point they started arguing. Michelle accused Saber of cheating on her, he reproached her about a guy she had allegedly flirted with. "It was just a tragic accident "The 17-year-old became increasingly angry. At his rival, at his girlfriend. "You're not behaving like a woman should," he shouted.
Saber A. slept it off next to the corpse
A fatal stab in Michelle's back. The Afghan covered the body with a sheet, slept off his intoxication - and then jumped out of the first floor window. According to the CID's reconstruction, the crime must have happened around 11 p.m. - the victim was only discovered 24 hours later, by her mother and a sister.
Saber A. had long been in Vienna at the time, he had gone into hiding with compatriots and was in the process of obtaining a forged passport, but he suspected that he was at risk of betrayal - and turned himself in to the police on December 11. "It was an accident," the 17-year-old now claims in interrogations, and that he would "grieve extremely" for Michelle, "because we were connected by a great love."
"I wanted to cut up some bread - she fell into my knife"
He describes the course of events as follows: During a "harmless jealous quarrel", he and the girl were walking around the room, "in a drunken state, I was holding a knife in my hand because I wanted to cut up some bread - and somehow it happened that my girlfriend stumbled, and fell with her back on the blade." Evidence at the scene refutes this version. Proceedings have been initiated against the Afghan for murder.
Video: Saber A. hoarded pills and knives in his room
Michelle's sad life story
A "love" that was always destructive for the girl. But she could not and would not understand this in her desperate search for happiness. Michelle's cards were not in her favor right from the start. She grew up in Steyr with three older siblings. Without a father. Her mother was attached to the children, but was unable to cope with caring for them, so they were repeatedly placed in care by the youth welfare office. Where Michelle was considered a "problem case". She was unable to stick to the rules and spent a lot of time on the street. Because she lacked stability.
And then, when she was not even 14, she met Saber on Facebook. He told her via chat about his dramatic escape from Afghanistan, about the war in his country; about his sad life now, in an asylum shelter in Vienna. Of his longing for his parents, of his loneliness. Of his hope - for love. The girl quickly felt familiar with the boy and told him about her own sadness. "I will give you security," the Afghan promised the Upper Austrian girl.
"He kept threatening her with murder"
In the summer of 2016, the two met for the first time at Steyr train station. From then on, they were considered a couple. Saber initially behaved inconspicuously, "he was calm, treated Michelle well, it even seemed as if he was exerting a positive influence on her", friends of the Upper Austrian woman recall. After leaving school, she started an apprenticeship in a supermarket and saved up with the aim of being able to rent an apartment for herself and her boyfriend: "But the more she got involved in the relationship, the more Saber began to show his true colors." He soon forbade her contact with her clique and deleted all her phone numbers - except his - from her cell phone. "After work, she locked herself in her room at his request," says Michelle's uncle: "I kept telling her that Saber was dangerous. But she wouldn't listen to me..."
Not even after the boy - on Christmas Eve 2017, in front of her family - bragged that he had already committed murder in his home country and subsequently threatened to kill his girlfriend, "just like that." The Afghan's behavior became even worse when he was moved to Steyr, to a home for underage refugees, in May 2018: "From then on, Michelle no longer had any freedom at all." But she found nothing wrong with submitting to him. Because she thought his possessiveness was a proof of love.
Saber A. did not accept the separation
And she was incredibly disappointed when she found out about her boyfriend's infidelity in October. Michelle broke up with him at the time. He didn't accept her decision, stalked her dozens of times, at her place of work, outside her home - and told her he would kill her if he broke up with her for good.
The 16-year-old still didn't believe that the Afghan could be capable of doing her harm and once again interpreted his threats as proof of his affection. And reconciled with him. On the weekend she died, she had wanted to get engaged to him. In her nursery. "All of us, her mother, her siblings, me," sobs Michelle's uncle, "had long suspected that the relationship with Saber would end tragically for Michelle at some point. But how could we have prevented this tragedy?"
Martin Prewein, Kronen Zeitung/krone.at
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