celleheute.de•Getty Mehdi H was killed while helping refugees integrate in Celle, Germany

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A 58 year old man from Afghanistan who arrived in the country in December with his wife and six children was arrested after he allegedly attacked and killed the German teacher, known as Medhi H, after believing he was involved in a relationship with his eldest daughter, aged 20. The 55 year old ocal school teacher, who fled Iran with with his family decades before, met the Afghan man in the German city of Celle at an asylum centre.

He continued to teach the family German after they were moved into a house provided by German officials. But, without warning the popular teacher was attacked with a stone and a metal rod.

IG A memorial to the popular teacher was packed

Getty Mehdi H was helping refugees in the Celle refugee camp

The horrifying incident happened in February but police struggled to get a solid lead until the end of March when they eventually arrested him and then charged him today. When interviewed by police he told them he believed the man had been involved in a relationship with his daughter and as a result killed him to avenge the insult.

Lars Janssen, a spokesman for the Celle prosecutor’s office, said the teacher was an unpaid volunteer offering translation services and assistance to new arrivals. He said there was no evidence to support the arrested man’s suspicions the volunteer teacher had any designs on his young daughter. The Afghan man has been charged with manslaughter. The teacher had been working at a school in Celle where a memorial service is being staged by students while his body is being flown back to Tehran to be buried.

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