Serious allegations have been made against a 65-year-old German employee of a migrant advocacy organisation: as reported by “Nius”, the woman is alleged to have helped the suspected six-time murderer from Stade, Fatih Khan G., to flee after the crime.
Sylvia S. is said to have driven the Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupé with nearly 400 PS, in which the 45-year-old Turkish man fled. According to the report, she is also said to have driven the perpetrator to the scene of the crime – a youth welfare centre in the Lower Saxony town. The expensive car is said to have been re-registered in her name around five weeks before Monday’s massacre.
The nationwide organisation for which the woman works as a family and migration counsellor is funded by the federal government through the “Demokratie leben!” programme, reports “Nius”, without naming the migration NGO. In this year alone and last year, the organisation reportedly received a total of almost 900,000 euros in taxpayers’ money.
On Monday, Fatih Khan G. opened fire at the facility where his three-month-old child and the child’s mother were being cared for, killing six staff members from youth welfare services and the youth welfare office
Shortly after the birth, the baby had to be treated first at Hannover Medical School and later at a children’s hospital for injuries caused by violent shaking. The father has been under suspicion of having abused the child ever since.
The 65-year-old woman who helped the gunman escape had previously spoken out in his defence. In a 20-page letter addressed, amongst others, to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, she defended the man against the allegations. According to the newspaper’s report, she claims in the letter that the father bumped his head against the child’s whilst half-asleep. She maintains that it was not a case of abuse, but an accident.
After the baby had been admitted to hospital, the father – who later shot the victims – is said to have even tried to prevent the child from undergoing emergency surgery by calling in the police. The doctors subsequently filed a complaint against him for aggressive behaviour. The child was eventually placed in the care of the youth welfare office. A family court later authorised the child’s return to the mother, but only to the children’s care facility in Stade, and not to Hanover.