Prosecutors allege that Khadidja O. was the victim of a targeted attack by her doppelgänger. As the trial approaches, Insider interviewed her family in Algeria, who are desperately seeking answers. Khadidja’s mother, Cherifa Bouch, had not seen her daughter in over a decade. However, one day in August, she felt an overwhelming sense that something was wrong. “On the day of her death, her framed picture fell off the wall,” she shared from her home in Oran, Algeria. “As a mother, I had an intuition that she was in crisis.” Tragically, her fears were confirmed. Police revealed that Khadidja, who lived in Heilbronn, Germany, at the time, was brutally murdered after being contacted on Instagram by a woman who resembled her doppelgänger.
The bizarre nature of the case captured media attention and turned the family’s life into a true-crime nightmare. Over the past 11 months, Bouch has been desperately seeking answers about how her daughter, a beauty blogger with a close-knit group of friends, could have been manipulated to her death through social media. She believes that German authorities have kept her in the dark, with information trickling in from media reports and Khadidja’s friends.
Khadidja’s younger sister, Ahlem Boudjemaâ, told Insider that hearing about her sister’s death through social media was devastating. “I was the first to learn the news, and I screamed and cried,” she said. The victim, 23-year-old Khadidja, was an Algerian beauty influencer residing in Heilbronn, Germany.
Last summer, prosecutors accused a 23-year-old German Iraqi woman, known as Shahraban K, of searching social media for a look-alike and then murdering Khadidja to fake her own death. Shahraban had created a fake Instagram account to contact multiple women who resembled her. When she found Khadidja, she offered the 23-year-old a makeover. Despite initial hesitation, Khadidja eventually agreed to meet up.
On August 16, police in Germany discovered a body with over 50 stab wounds in the back of a Mercedes in Ingolstadt. The victim’s face was “badly injured,” according to the authorities. Initially, they identified the body as Shahraban’s, but an autopsy revealed that it was Khadidja’s. The striking resemblance between the two women led Shahraban’s parents to mistakenly believe that the body belonged to their daughter. A second suspect, Shahraban’s friend, Sheqir K, was identified as someone who assisted in the murder.
Veronika Grieser of the Ingolstadt state prosecutor’s office revealed that Shahraban wanted to disappear due to family disputes. The murder weapon has not been found, but the evidence against the suspects is strong. The case gained international attention when details of the investigation were disclosed in January, earning headlines as the “doppelgänger murder.”
For Bouch, news of her daughter’s death reached her much later, taking ten days for her to find out. She claims that German authorities failed to inform her and feels that her daughter’s rights may be disregarded, and the killers may go unpunished. Despite providing her with a general email address, Bouch received no support from the German authorities. A recent trip to Germany proved fruitless, with Bouch struggling to retrieve information while dealing with her own health issues. However, she remains hopeful that attending the trial and hearing the verdict will bring her some solace and closure.
Bouch’s frustrations with the lack of assistance from the German authorities continue to grow. She believes that her daughter’s rights are being neglected and unanswered questions remain. The trial of Shahraban and Sheqir is forthcoming, leaving the family in a state of limbo. Boudjemaâ shared her disbelief over her sister’s passing, stating, “I still don’t understand the reason.”
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