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The Guardian - UK
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Philip Oltermann in Berlin

‘Doppelganger murder’: German prosecutors claim woman killed lookalike to fake death

Flowers and candles left at the base of a tree
Tributes left after the body of a 23-year-old woman was found in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, on 17 August 2022. Photograph: Peter Kneffel/dpa

A 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman sought out a lookalike on Instagram and murdered her with a friend in order to fake her own death, prosecutors in Bavaria believe.

When the blood-covered body of a young woman was found last August in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, reports initially identified the victim as Sharaban K, a Munich-based 23-year-old beautician with Iraqi roots.

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