Maria Ladenburger was a 19 year old student in Germany. She volunteered at a refugee center in Freiburg, Germany. Her father, Dr. Clemens Ladenburger, is a lawyer who works as the right hand man to the legal director of the European Commision, part of the European Union.

On October 16, 2016 Maria had been at a party, by 2:37 a.m., she left the party.

She cycled home, as usual, when she was forcefully stopped by Afghan migrant Hussein Khavari. She was raped and then drowned before her body was found in the River Dreisam. ^[undefined] The next day her body was found by a female jogger. Maria was buried in Brussels on October 27, 2016.

The suspect is a 17-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan, a so-called "underage unaccompanied refugee" who immigrated into Germany in 2015 ^[undefined] and lived in the home of a family in Freiburg, which was also questioned after his arrest.

^[undefined] The suspect will be charged under juvenile criminal law, which means, he can receive a maximum jail term of 10 years, including the deportation.

^[undefined] The deportation can only be executed, when the underage refugee can be handed over to relatives or a protectory, which is rarely the case.

^[undefined] A 18.5cm long hair that he lost at the murder scene and which portended on a conspicuous hairstyle - a bleached undercut - identified the perpetrator, a 17-year-old asylum seeker.

His original hair color was black.

A policewoman recognized him on a CCTV recording from a streetcar which was taped in the vicinity on early 17 October, though he had partially changed his hairstyle.

Besides the hair, also a black scarf that he wore identified the man, as DNA traces were also found on it.

The arrest was announced on early 3 December.

Freiburg police held a press conference the same day.