Doppelganger death

PROSECUTORS in a murder case in Germany believe the suspect got in contact with a lookalike online in order to fake her own death. Police issued arrest warrants for the suspect and an alleged accomplice at the end of January.

The body of a young woman discovered in August 2022 was originally identified as ‘Sharaban K’ a 23­year­old Iraqi­German beautician. Members of the woman’s family assisted police in identifying the body, but the next day it was identified as another person, ‘Khadidja O’,

A UKRAINIAN man accused of directing the theft of a €1.5 million piece of artwork went on trial in Paris on Monday, January 30. The anonymous suspect allegedly masterminded the raid on the Musée de Beaux ­ Arts in Nancy, France in 2018.

The suspect was arrested in Kyiv one year later by police who had been searching for a murder suspect, when they came across the century ­ old painting that had seemingly disappeared with ­ a 23­year­old Algerian beauty blogger in a postmortem report.

Police believe ‘Sharaban K’ and an accomplice reached out to ‘Khadidja O’ via Instagram message and lured her to an address where they stabbed her and feigned ‘Sharaban K’’s own death.

German police described the women as looking “strikingly similar” due to make­up, complexion and hair styles, leading the cases to be referred to as the “doppelganger murder.”