Trier/Regensburg – The investigators searched intensively for Yosyp Haiosh, who is said to have murdered a refugee from Ukraine in a hotel room on March 26. Now officials were able to arrest the 34-year-old on a train near Regensburg.
The man is said to have killed a Ukrainian woman († 38) who had fled Ukraine with her family, including a daughter (13) and lived in Merzig. She was found dead on March 28th – in the bed box of a Trier hotel room.
There she is said to have met the alleged killer two days earlier. A police spokesman: “Both rented a hotel room in downtown Trier. After that, for reasons that are not yet known, the crime happened there.”
The room was paid for in cash according to BILD information.
The police used this photo to search for the perpetrator Photo: Police
Hotel staff discovered the body of the 38-year-old. She is said to have been strangled. All of the woman’s personal belongings and clothing were not found. The investigators suspect that Yosyp Haiosh, also a Ukrainian citizen, disposed of them completely.
The victim on the day of her murder in a subwayPhoto: Police
Crime scene investigators search the hotel and the immediate vicinity of the hotel (single rooms from 63 euros) for traces and clues into the eveningPhoto: Sebastian Klemm
On the night of Saturday, around 0.20 a.m., the officers finally managed to catch the man on a train to Regensburg. He allowed himself to be arrested without resistance.
He will now be brought before an investigating judge at the district court in Regensburg and will be arrested after the international arrest warrant has been issued.