Murder of Jakob von Metzler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German child murderer
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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Murder of Jakob von Metzler
- The murder of Jakob von Metzler was a German murder case.
- In 2002 11-year old Jakob von Metzler was kidnapped and murdered by the law student Magnus Gäfgen in Frankfurt.
- The following year, Gäfgen was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.The case drew controversy over the fact that Gäfgen was threatened with torture during his interrogation by the police in order to save his victim's life.
- The European Court of Human Rights case of Gäfgen v.
- Germany has been widely discussed in debates on torture.In January 2015, it became known that Gäfgen had changed his name to Thomas David Lukas Olsen, reportedly inspired by the fictional Danish/Norwegian criminal Egon Olsen.
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