 BERLIN: An autopsy conducted on Wednesday on a Pakistani student, who died in custody after he was arrested for allegedly planning an attack on a German newspaper editor, supported investigatorsÂ’ finding that he committed suicide, Berlin prosecutors said.
| Guess they'll have to seethe about something else... |
Amer Cheema, 28, was arrested in March while allegedly carrying a knife as he tried to enter the office of Axel Springer, the publisher of the daily Die Welt, which had reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (may his drip clear up peace be upon him).
| Ummm... I thought Axel died in 1985? Would that be Axel Springer III or something? Or Axel Springer Verlag? Or did they have him stuffed and mounted? |
German police have said that Cheema hanged himself in his Berlin cell on May 3 using a noose made from his clothes. Berlin prosecutors said that an autopsy was carried out on Wednesday by a leading German expert in the presence of two high-ranking Pakistani police officials, the prosecutor leading the case and an investigating judge.
"Now, obzerve clösely, zat dem cervicäl vertebrae — hier, und hier — haff pärted kompanie in dem most abrüpt männer!"
"Eeeewwww!" |
The autopsy “led to the determination that there are no indications of involvement by other persons in the death” and the conclusions coincided with investigators’ previous findings – “in particular the situation in which the dead man was found”, a statement from prosecutors said.
"Oh, ja! He vass vound hänging by the neck, dängling from his salvar kameez! Hier are dem pictures!"
"Eeeewwww!" |
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry earlier said in a statement that a team of experts from the Federal Investigation Agency were in Berlin on Wednesday “to independently verify the circumstances” of Cheema’s death. The Foreign Ministry said that Cheema’s body will be repatriated after an initial investigation is completed.
"Fritz!"
"Ja, Herr Überköroner!"
"Püt der body in dem böx!"
"Jawohl, Herr Überköroner!"
"Und make sure you get all of it!" |
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