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Murder of Yangjie Li

On 11 May 2016, 25-year-old Chinese architecture student Yangjie Li was abducted, raped, and murdered by 20-year-old Sebastian Flech in Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Li's body was found two days later and on the same day, Flech and his fiancée Xenia Lang were arrested when they approached police with a cover story about potential DNA evidence on Li's body.

In 2017, both were found guilty of the murder. Flech was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder while Lang, who had knowingly lured the victim into an ambush, received a juvenile sentence of 5 years and six months for sexual assault. The accused's parents are police officers, and it was suspected the police may have acted to suppress evidence, as part of a multitude of alleged misconduct by since the 1990s. The event generated substantial media attention in Mainland China. Provided by Wikipedia