Migrant Sentenced to Prison in Germany for Murder of 15-Year-Old Ex-girlfriend

Maximilian Endler, the defendant's lawyer, answers questions outside the regional courthouse during the trial of Abdul D in the German western town of Landau on Sept. 3, 2018. Andreas Arnold/AFP/Getty Images

A migrant has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for killing his 15-year-old German ex-girlfriend.

The person, who is known only as Abdul D., owing to Germany’s privacy rules, stabbed the girl at a drug store in the small southwestern town of Kandel, in December 2017.