Legacy MattersWhen Judge Kirsten Heisig, 48, disappeared from Berlin without a trace, the search was on.
The last sign of life is to have a SMS sent to one of her two daughters. Heisig wanted to take the girls to holiday in the next few days.
When her abandoned car was found in a forest, special hunt dogs were sent out.
The judge works in the city’s gritty Neukölln district. There she instituted changes simplifying and accelerating punishment for youth crime.
But her body was found in a field on the edge of Berlin
Searches had been under way in the city since Kirsten Heisig, 48, vanished on Monday evening. Known for a zero-tolerance campaign to crack down on repeat juvenile offenders in the deprived Berlin neighbourhood of Neukoelln, she had been criticized by ethnic minorities.
Officials say it was a suicide because there was no evidence any other party was involved in the death.
I am very far away and don't know all the facts but count me suspicious of the suicide conclusion. It is more likely that she ran afoul of very powerful, criminal Arabic drug cartels.
Excerpts are now being printed from her book The End of Patience which will be published in Germany at the end of this month Heisig made final changes to the manuscript on the last day she was seen alive. The excerpts are explosive.
Arabic drug cartels are trafficking children and youths from Palestinian refugee camps into Germany, according to excerpts published on Monday of a book by a Berlin youth judge who committed suicide last month.
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Heisig described the process by which children and youths were flown in from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, by traffickers who took their passports and promised them a better life.
The youths reportedly told German officials they were living with relatives after their parents had died, and said their families had spent their last penny on sending the children to Germany in pursuit of a better life.
In Germany, these young people disappeared from youth homes and were taken in by their own communities, where they were taught how to master the drugs trade...The judge said it had struck her how often youths she sentenced for heroin trafficking in central Berlin had actually been assigned to care homes across Germany, where their disappearance was merely registered with the authorities.