All of the information stated in this article is based on reliable sources of information and is detailed at the end of the article
●—≺ Preface ≻—●
This is a tragic case that makes all Chinese sad and angry, Chinese female students were sexually abused by a German couple for several hours and died while studying in Germany, and the rights of the criminal father covered the sky with only one hand, using the power in his hands to create false evidence to exonerate his son, and even bit back, slandering that Chinese female students voluntarily joined the "multi-person movement" to lead to death.
As soon as this news came out, not only the Chinese were outraged, but even the local people in Germany organized to speak out for the murdered Chinese girl and demand severe punishment for the murderer.
However, the murderer has a father who covers the sky with one hand, and in the face of such a powerful background, can this case get a fair verdict? What did this poor Chinese girl go through before she died?
●—≺ Strange woman≻—●
Li Yangjie is a post-90s girl, born in Boai County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, because she is an only daughter, so as soon as she was born, she became the most favored person in the family.
In 2014, Li Yangjie graduated from the School of Architecture of Henan University of Science and Technology and was lucky to be admitted to Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
Li Yangjie's family is not wealthy, but in order to let their daughter learn better knowledge, her parents still took out nearly half of their savings for their daughter to go to Germany to realize her architectural dream.
When it comes to China's most famous female architects, Lin Huiyin dares to call the second, and no one dares to call him the first, Lin Huiyin also has the experience of studying architecture abroad, and has participated in the design of the national emblem of New China, the Monument to the People's Heroes and the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
It's a pity that Li Yangjie did not realize her architectural dream like Lin Huiyin, and she would never have expected that she would leave her soul and dream in Germany forever because of the kindness in her heart.
Li Yangjie lives in Dessau, Germany, and after arriving, she rented an apartment in the city center with her best classmates, and with the help of her classmates, she quickly adapted to life in a foreign country.
In the blink of an eye, Li Yangjie has spent two years of studying abroad in Germany, and the time has come to May 11, 2016, during which the school is on a long vacation, Li Yangjie has nothing to do, and jogged around the apartment that evening.
However, on a familiar street corner, Li Yangjie was stopped by a woman, and after a short conversation, Li Yangjie followed the woman into a house and did not come out until it was dark.
●—≺ 惨遭虐杀 ≻—●
In the early morning of May 12, Li Yangjie's classmates saw that she had not returned overnight, so they took out their mobile phones and sent a message to the other party, but they did not get a reply for a long time.
This classmate and Li Yangjie are very good, the two will meet every morning to have breakfast together, in the eyes of classmates, Li Yangjie is an extremely self-disciplined girl, in the short period of coming to Germany for nearly two years, she lives a life of two points and one line every day.
Because Li Yangjie's German is not very good, so her circle of friends is very small, and she only has contacts with a few classmates who have a good relationship in the local area.
At present, Li Yangjie not only did not come back all night, but also did not even reply to the message, and the classmates immediately realized that something was wrong, so they notified the school and dialed the police.
After receiving the report, the local police immediately dispatched hundreds of police forces, a helicopter and several police dogs, and conducted a comprehensive search along the route that Li Yangjie might have taken.
But a whole day and a night have passed, and the police still have not found a trace of clues related to Li Yangjie, and the phone calls are still unanswered, and everyone has even begun to suspect that the Chinese girl may have suffered an accident.
At 11 p.m. on May 13, the police found a disheveled female body dozens of meters away from Li Yangjie's disappearance.
Li Yangjie's death was extremely tragic, her head and face had been beaten to the point of disfigurement, and there were multiple fractures on her body, in addition, the forensic doctor found that the deceased had said many violations before her death, and it was hard to imagine what kind of horrific torture this girl suffered before her death.
The local police informed the family of Li Yangjie's death, and her parents immediately bought the nearest plane ticket to Germany after hearing it, and the mother cried until her liver and intestines broke when she looked at the items used by her daughter before her death, but the father sat in his daughter's room with a solemn expression, as if thinking about some problems.
Li Yangjie's father, who used to be a police officer by profession and has decades of experience in handling cases, thought about it indoors for a long time, went to investigate around the crime scene, and finally came to a bold speculation that the murderer of his daughter was very likely to be nearby, but because he was a family member of the deceased and he was in Germany, he could not participate in solving the case.
●—≺ The suspect's father who covered the sky with one hand ≻—●
On May 23, 10 days after Li Yangjie's body was found, the German police worked overtime to test the DNA extracted from Li Yangjie's body, but on the same day, a young man found the police station.
The man, Sebastian · Fletch, told police that on the day of Li Yangjie's disappearance on May 10, his girlfriend Xenia went out for a walk and happened to meet Li Yangjie, who was running.
Seeing that the Chinese girl was cute, Xenia stepped forward to ask if she would like to play "multi-person sports" together, and after getting permission, Xenia took her to Fletch's house and had more than four relationships, after which Li Yangjie walked out of the house intact.
Fletch and his girlfriend Yassen
Fletch told the police that he heard that DNA was being compared, and because Li Yangjie had the DNA left behind by himself, he was worried that he would be mistaken for the murderer by the police, so he took the initiative to file it.
However, through the police investigation, it was found that the location where Fletch lived was next to the tree where the victim's body was dumped, and through comparison, the DNA on his body completely matched the body fluids left on Li Yangjie's body, and even the DNA of the subcutaneous tissue in Li Yangjie's nails was completely consistent with Fletch, which shows that Fletch is suspected of committing a major crime.
The police naturally didn't listen to Fletch's words, and immediately controlled him and his girlfriend Yasen, but before they could investigate further, the police were forced to terminate the investigation due to the special identity of the suspect.
It turned out that the suspect Fletsch's mother was a senior female police officer, and his stepfather was the chief of the local police station.
Under the operation of the police chief, the prosecutor reversed the facts at the case press conference, did not mention the murder part at all, and instead focused on the "multi-person movement".
Prosecutors said that Li Yangjie voluntarily engaged in a "multi-person movement" with the suspect on the day of the killing, hoping to rely on such an account to help Flech and Xenia clear their name.
In order to exonerate his son, Fletsch's stepfather did not hesitate to fabricate and even tarnish the innocence of the dead Chinese girl, not to mention the Chinese, even the German people were extremely angry.
●—≺ Germany the public solidarity with the deceased ≻—●
In order to exonerate his son, the chief of the Dessau City Police not only relied on his position to shield his son who was suspected of committing a major crime, but even did not defile a Chinese girl who had died tragically.
As the incident continued to ferment, major media in Germany reported on the incident and specifically emphasized the identity of the suspect Fletsch, arousing the anger of Chinese and Germans.
At the end of May, many local people in Germany took to the streets to protest with the Chinese, speaking out for the deceased Li Yangjie, demanding that the German police severely punish the murderer, and uniting with the Chinese community to spontaneously hold a mourning service for Li Yangjie.
In addition, the Chinese side also intervened in the matter, and under public opinion and diplomatic pressure from the mainland, the parents of the suspect Fletsch, who were forced by the German leadership, to leave their jobs temporarily, and to involve the police in the neighboring cities of Halle and Dessau.
But even though Fletch's parents left their posts temporarily, they still controlled the direction of the case, and the two asked investigators to place the investigation center in the area of the old city, where many homeless people lived, and tried to characterize the case as "homeless crimes".
Fearing Fletch's father's rights, the local police deliberately bypassed the house where Fleich lived during the investigation, and the investigation was unusually slow.
What's even more desperate is that the investigation team turned out Fletch's case record, this person is still a habitual offender, who has been prosecuted for arson, robbery, indecent assault and other more than 40 crimes, but without exception all ended in failed prosecutions, which shows that Fletch is not a good bird, but it also shows the difficulty of this case from the side.
Fortunately, the Harley City Investigation Team was not subject to the constraints of the Dessau City Police, and the incident was so loud that even if Fletch's stepfather was the police chief, he did not dare to forcibly prevent the field investigation team from going anywhere.
The investigation team entered the house where Fletch lived, and looked through the call logs and Fletch's computer, only to find a chilling clue at the spine.
●—≺ Record of Horror ≻—●
Between the night of Ms. Li's disappearance and the early morning of the next day, Frankie made dozens of phone calls to the same number, which was Fletch's mother.
In Fletch's computer, the investigation team found an unbelievable search record, which included words such as "Asian women", "bondage", "sexual assault", etc., and the search time was a few days before Li Yangjie's disappearance.
In addition, Fletch also used his computer to search for content related to the "hidden body", and the time of these records was in the early morning of May 12, that is, the period between Li Yangjie's disappearance and the discovery of the body.
The investigation team also found traces of cleaning in Fletch's home, but they still used technical means to detect traces of blood splatters on the ceiling, some of which were actually on the ceiling, a full 3 meters high.
After the blood samples were taken, the investigation team immediately handed them over to the technical department for testing, and at the same time, the investigators visited nearby neighbors and asked if they had heard any strange movements.
Neighbors reacted that on the night of May 11, they heard the mournful female wails coming from Fletch's room, but because Fletch often played some perverted "games" with his girlfriend, the neighbors who were accustomed to it did not take it seriously.
Subsequently, the investigation team reviewed the surveillance records in the vicinity and found that at 8:20 p.m. on May 11, Li Yangjie was running nearby, and when she passed the downstairs of Fletch's house, Fletch's girlfriend Yasen stopped her to talk to her, and Li Yangjie hesitated for a while before entering Fletch's residence.
At about half past two in the morning of the next day, Fletch walked out of the residence, circled the house several times and returned inside, but Li Yangjie was never seen walking out.
Through phone calls, computer search records, deliberately cleaned blood stains in the room, neighbors' confessions, and the surveillance video, it can be basically concluded that the Fletch couple is the murderer of Li Yangjie, and the evidence can be conclusive just by waiting for the bloodstain analysis report to come out.
Through testing, the blood splattered in the room was from Li Yangjie, a Chinese student, and it can be confirmed that Li Yangjie was killed in Fletch's residence.
●—≺ The Terrible Truth ≻—●
On November 25, 2016, half a year after Li Yangjie was killed, with the unremitting efforts of the investigation team, Fletch and Yassen were finally put on trial.
But when questioned by the judge, Fletch pretended to be dumb, claiming that all questions were answered by his lawyer, and covered his face with a folder, apparently under special guidance.
Although Fletch can admit his guilt, his girlfriend Yassen does not have such a strong psychological quality, and in the face of heavy pressure from investigators, Yassen can no longer withstand the pressure and confesses what happened that night.
Jassen was often abused by her stepfather as a child, which caused her to have low self-esteem in the relationship between men and women, and at the age of 17, he met her boyfriend Frankie, and the two quickly developed a relationship between men and women.
But Frankie is a person with an extremely twisted mind, often asking Jassen to provide perverted services for him, and if he can't meet his own requirements, he will use various means to "punish" his girlfriend.
Because Yasen was violated by his stepfather since he was a child, he has an inexplicable "obedience" to men, not only did he not think about rebelling against his boyfriend, but he quickly adapted to such a perverted life.
This deformed relationship lasted for two years, and Jassen even gave birth to two children to Frankie, but as time went on, Frankie's demands became more and more distorted.
In May 2016, Frankie became intrigued about Asian women and searched the Internet for a lot of content about Asian women.
After dinner on May 11, Frankie, who felt bored, asked his girlfriend Yasen to find an Asian woman to meet his perverted needs, and Yasen just walked out of the door, and ran into Li Yangjie who was running, Yasen stepped forward to greet Li Yangjie, claiming that he was alone at home, and there was a very heavy box in the house that could not be moved, and asked Li Yangjie to come into the house to help move it.
In the face of the stranger's request, Li Yangjie stood in place and hesitated for a while, but out of the kindness in her heart, she still decided to help the other party, never thought that she had just entered the house, and was held by Frankie who was ambushed behind the door, the power of women itself is not as great as that of men, not to mention that Asian women face German men, plus Yasen next to her, Li Yangjie was quickly controlled.
In the next few hours, the couple inflicted inhuman assault and torture on Li Yangjie, and let out heart-rending screams from their mouths, but even though the surrounding neighbors could hear it, no one came to check on the situation, because they mistakenly thought it was Yasen's voice.
During this period, every time Li Yangjie resisted, she would be brutally beaten, she was beaten until her face was covered with blood, her body was broken in many places, blood was splashed everywhere, and she was finally tortured to death.
Seeing that Li Yangjie was not moving, the beast Fletch did not find a way to rescue him at the first time, but hit Li Yangjie hard with his elbow several times, found a water tank, pressed Li Yangjie's head into it, and saw that there was no bubble, so it was determined that Li Yangjie was dead.
Subsequently, the couple loaded the body into a garbage bin more than one meter wide, bypassed surveillance cameras, and transported it through scaffolding from the first-floor window at the back of the house to a large tree next to the house, leaving the disheveled Li Yangjie there.
With Jason's confession, coupled with hard evidence such as DNA comparison and blood stain testing, even if Fletch wants to deny it, it will be useless, and he can only wait for the trial to come.
On August 4, 2017, the court tried Li Yangjie's case, and because Germany has abolished the death penalty, the court sentenced the main offender to life imprisonment without parole, which is already the harshest sentence in Germany.
Under German law, a person between the ages of 18 and 21 is defined as an "older juvenile offender", and the crime is a juvenile offense, while the accomplice Jassen was 19 years old at the time of the crime, which is exactly in the range of "older juvenile offenders", and her voluntary confession led to a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
●—≺ Summary ≻—●
From the murder of Li Yangjie in May 2016 to the final trial in August 2017, Li Yangjie's case was investigated for 15 months despite conclusive evidence, and after 37 court sessions, the dust finally settled in the face of many obstacles.
Although the main culprit Fletch was sentenced to the maximum sentence by Germany, it is infuriating that because no evidence of perjury and shielding was found, Fletsch's mother and stepfather were not convicted and were reinstated.
Fletch's stepfather
As an accomplice, Jensen, she is only 25 years old after her sentence is over, and she can still start her life again, but Li Yangjie, who was deceived into the "devil's cave" by her because of her kindness, can never come back.
Since Li Yangjie left, her parents would often look at the photos of her before her death and be sad, and the father, because he missed his daughter too much, wrote a letter, hoping that his daughter in heaven would be able to see:
"Yangjie, although you are gone, but your laughter, your laughter, has been echoing in our ears, your cheerful posture when running, always appear in front of our eyes, really, our vitality can not live without you."
"It's hard for us to imagine how we will spend the next few days, every festive season, every birthday, every death day, think about our hearts like an awl that can never be pulled out......"
"May you go all the way, there are flowers on the other side of heaven, and there is no evil."
Key sources of information:
1. The original article was published in the Beijing News on August 8, 2017: "Chinese student Li Yangjie was deceived by a woman into being abused at home in Germany"
2. The original article was published in Xinhua News Agency on June 5, 2016: "The Murder Case of Li Yangjie, a Girl Studying in Germany: Looking Forward to "An Explanation""
3. The original article was published in The Paper on August 8, 2017: "The Murder of Li Yangjie, a Chinese Student in Germany: The Solidarity and Mourning Activities of Chinese in Germany I Experienced"
4. The original article was published on People's Daily Online on June 9, 2016: "Berlin Mourning Feeling (Picture)"
5. The original article was published on China News Network on May 20, 2016: "The German people mourn for the murder of the Chinese female student who was killed, and the mystery of the murder needs to be solved urgently"