Berlin court reduces sentence after ‘blood money’ deal A manslaughter conviction ends with four years after a $100,000 payment between families under tribal custom is accepted as mitigating.

July 1, 2025   

(European Conservative) A rejected asylum seeker received a lighter sentence for manslaughter after the court took into account a payment of “blood money” made under Shariah and tribal customs.

In June 2024, Abdi A. stabbed his childhood friend Abdihannan M. during an argument over noise levels in their building. The latter succumbed to his injuries. Reportedly, the altercation followed the duo’s indulgence in a drug-fuelled weekend of partying.

Sentenced to four years in prison by the Berlin Regional Court for manslaughter, Abdi A. was able to use his family’s payment of “blood money” to his victim’s family as a mitigating factor in sentencing.

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