In the court of the city of Mannheim, located in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, consideration of the high-profile case of the murder of a Ukrainian mother and her daughter began. The German couple accused of committing the crime pleaded guilty. This is reported by DW.
The verdict may be announced in February.
In order to kidnap five-week-old Margarita, the couple killed 51-year-old Ukrainian refugee Maryna Stetsenko and her 27-year-old daughter Margarita. They expressed remorse for what had happened.
According to the investigation, they did it out of a desire to have a child. The woman is 45 years old, the man is 43. To do this, the woman joined a support group for Ukrainian refugees in Telegram, contacted the 27-year-old victim when she was looking for a translator for the upcoming birth.
Then, in the restaurant, the couple gave the Ukrainian women a sedative and pretended they were being taken to the hospital. First, the man killed the grandmother on the lake by hitting her on the head with an unknown object, and then the mother in the same way, and burned the corpse. The couple went home with the child. Soon they were detained.
The girl is already 11 months old, she lives in Ukraine with her aunt.
