A refugee has been accused of beheading his girlfriend in Germany

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The Congolese migrant had been seeking asylum in Berlin when he is alleged to have carried out the bloody attack.

The man, identified only as Yve M, is accused of using a knife to stab his girlfriend 30 times before beheading her corpse.

He then cut off her left arm and the little finger on her right hand before decorating her body.