The murder trial of the Afghan killer brothers Yousuf Sayed (27) and Mahdi Seyed H. (23) has been going on since March 2. They allegedly killed their sister Maryam (34). On Friday, a female attendant testified.
Petra L. (56) was the legal attendant of the older brother in Bavaria for a long time, lived together with her client for months. The man is thirty years younger than her and is now on trial as an alleged murderer. The judge asks the attractive woman point-blank: “Did you have a sexual relationship with him?” Succinct answer: “Like mum and son.”
And further: “I had been looking after him since 2016. My mission was to bring him to Berlin. Because all his siblings live in Berlin. He had psychological problems, he said: Only when I am with my family can I be healthy. But it was difficult. He spent all his money on trips to Berlin. He was respectful, polite, reliable – towards me. I was the mummy for him. But he didn’t tell me everything. He did warehouse work, minimum wage. Where the money for a driving licence came from, he didn’t say.”
He kept his distance from his compatriots. The Afghans said, ‘He’s an odd one out. They shunned him. I took him in when he was expelled from a shelter. For about eight weeks.It was like mother and son, that kind of relationship. I felt really sorry for him, honestly. He then had a love affair with my neighbour below me. Although she is married and has two children. I always had to work a lot, she had a lot of time. She had a child by him. The son is now three years old, I think. I don’t think he was anxious to have a child. He had enough problems of his own.
Petra L. reports: “He was torn between worlds. We talked a lot about religion. He wanted to be a good, decent man, but he didn’t pray, he didn’t go to the mosque either.”
And she says: “Among the brothers and sisters, he was the poor one, the leper. They all lived in Berlin, he alone in Bavaria. In 2019, he moved to Berlin. He lived here in Berlin. I applied to the district court in Berlin to be released from guardianship. November 2020, it was revoked. Nevertheless, he continued to seek contact with me. When he was in Donauwörth, he came to me for advice and help. On July 30, he wanted to meet me, but it never happened. Then, on holiday, I found out about his sister in Berlin. I thought I was going to suffer a stroke.
The caregiver concludes: “I can only imagine that they put pressure on him to take the dead sister away. His clan threatened him that he had to bury her. Otherwise the clan would kill him. For him it was always important: What do the others think of me, how do I look? He is afraid of dogs and cats and afraid of saying the wrong thing. Then he’d rather say nothing at all.”
Maryam disappeared in Berlin on July 13, 2021. Videos show the brothers at Südkreuz station that day. They are lugging a wheeled suitcase to the train to Munich. Maryam’s body is found in Bavaria. The brothers remain silent in court. The trial continues on May 18. A verdict is to be pronounced on October 10.