Failed Afghan asylum seeker ‘stabbed to death female store manager who gave him a job’ after his deportation from Germany was deemed ‘unsafe’
An Afghan refugee woman has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing her boss to death, after German authorities ruled her country too unsafe.
Sayed Akbar S. allegedly stabbed Magda M. 26 times with an 8-centimeter knife on May 7, 2025, at a ‘New Yorker’ clothing store in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, in an incident described by German media as ‘frenzy’.
Polish-born 41-year-old Magda tragically died at the scene, while 26-year-old Sayed was found a short distance away with blood on his hands.
At his hearing, it was revealed that his asylum application to stay in Germany was rejected.
However, instead of sending him back to Afghanistan, German authorities decided that it would be too dangerous to send him back and imposed a deportation ban.
It was also revealed that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and a prosecutor told the court: ‘He acted with diminished responsibility.’
But this did little to reassure Magda’s family, who were present at the hearing and told Bild: ‘What should we think when we see this man?
‘Our pain began the moment Magda ended her life. It’s a pain that will never end and has traumatized many people forever,’ his mother said.
Sayed Akbar S. allegedly stabbed Magda M. 27 times with an 8-centimeter knife at the ‘New Yorker’ clothing store in Krefeld on May 7, 2025 (Krefeld file image)
It comes weeks after an Afghan man thought to be psychologically ill appeared in a German court for a fatal stabbing attack on a small group of children, which his defense lawyer described as an “act of madness”.
Nine months ago, a two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man, who were trying to protect the children, died and three people were injured in the stabbing incidents that took place in a park in the southern city of Aschaffenburg.
Prosecutors acknowledged that the 28-year-old boy, who attacked the nursery group with a kitchen knife on January 22, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
The attack, which took place just a month before national elections in Germany, inflamed an already heated debate about immigration.
It was stated that the suspect, who was arrested near the scene of the stabbing, only part of his name was Enamullah O., in accordance with the normal practice of the German judiciary.
He looked dazed and calm, wearing a light white shirt and dark jacket as he faced the field in handcuffs and shackled feet.
