German authorities are investigating the brutal assault and murder of a 14-year-old Jewish girl on Thursday, and a fugitive Iraqi asylum-seeker is a suspect.

The girl, identified by police as Susanna Maria Feldman, was found Wednesday on the outskirts of the western German city of Wiesbaden. She had been missing since May 22.

Germany’s Central Council of Jews said the murdered girl was a member of the Jewish community in Mainz, near Wiesbaden. It called for a thorough investigation and warned in a statement against “premature conclusions.”

Prosecutors initially told reporters at a news conference Thursday that two men — a 20-year-old Iraqi and a 35-year-old Turkish citizen, both of whom lived at homes for asylum-seekers in the city — were suspected of abusing and killing the girl on the evening she went missing.

Later Thursday, prosecutors said they were withdrawing the arrest warrant for the Turkish man, who had been detained Wednesday evening, saying new information had emerged indicating the 35-year-old wasn’t urgently suspected of involvement in the crime.

This 14 years old jewish girl Suzana Feldman from the city of Mintz in Germany she was found today dead after she was raped and strangled to death a Turkish migrant was arrested and two migrants from Iraq are still on the run why the hateWhy is it always from the same religion ? pic.twitter.com/KpECqmRcOH

— Dan m (@Dmonsel) June 7, 2018

Police said the Iraqi man, whom they identified as Ali Bashar, appeared to have left the country abruptly with his family last week, flying to Erbil, Iraq via Istanbul. He was a suspect in a string of previous offenses in the area, including a robbery at knifepoint.

He’s believed to have arrived in Germany in October 2015, at the height of the migrant influx to Germany, and was appealing the rejection of his asylum application.

Police said a 13-year-old refugee boy went to a police station in Wiesbaden on Sunday and told officers the girl had been abused and killed, and named the Iraqi as a possible perpetrator.

Previous killings by asylum-seekers in Germany have fanned tensions over the influx of more than a million migrants in 2015 and 2016, an issue that helped the far-right Alternative for Germany enter the German parliament last year.

The surge of migrants also sparked a rash of attacks on asylum-seekers’ homes, which has since tapered off.

In one case, two men were convicted Thursday in the southwestern city of Landau of setting fire to a home being built for asylum-seekers in the nearby town of Herxheim in 2015. They both received probation.

(YWN / AP)