Germany Samir Beganovic, 11, Berlin, Germany, February 12, 1994

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439DMDEU - Samir Beganovic
Samir Beganovic seit 1994 vermisst

Name: Samir Beganovic
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: February 12, 1994
Location Last Seen: Berlin, Germany.

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: March 30, 1982
Age: 11 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 130 cm.
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Shoulder length, black
Eye Color: Grey-brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Slender build. He has a small mole on the left cheek. He was born in Yugoslavia. He speaks German and Serbo-Croatian.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Beganovic was wearing a black coat, red trousers, a baseball cap and brown shoes. He had no other items with him when he disappeared.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

At about 22.00 on February 12 1994, Beganovic left his home in Berlin-Wilmersdorf to travel by public transport to his uncle's flat in Berlin-Kreuzberg. He never arrived. During that year, he is said to have been seen on and near Karl-Marx-Strasse in Berlin-Neukolln and to have offered his services as a window cleaner to several businesses. Witnesses also reported that he was sometimes accompanied by another male teenager.

Extensive investigation, also in Berlin's gay scene, hasn´t produced any specific leads to solve this case.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Vermisstenstelle des Landeskriminalamtes
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: +49 30 699 32 72 40

 

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Berlin: Vermisst: Samir Beganovic

March 27, 2001, 12:00 a.m

People disappear in Berlin every day. Most are found quickly. But some have been missing for months or even years. They are on the police wanted lists. The Tagesspiegel presents one of them every day

Samir Beganovic has a small birthmark on his left cheek. If he is still alive today, it may be one of the few personal characteristics that have not changed. When the student left his parents' apartment in Wilmersdorf on February 12, 1994 to go to his uncle in Kreuzberg, he was almost twelve years old and still a child. He never got to his uncle's house. If Samir Beganovic is still alive, he would have his 19th birthday these days.

Witnesses claim to have seen the boy around Karl-Marx-Strasse in Neukölln during 1994, where he is said to have offered to clean windows at various shops. A few times, according to the statements, he was accompanied by another young person.

The media reported on the case again and again, and the police investigated in various directions for years, including looking for the missing man in the prostitution scene. But so far there has been no concrete information about the fate of Samir Beganovic. Perhaps the boy has now become a young adult, or he died under circumstances that remain unclear.

 

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Spurlos vermisst - Wenn Kinder in Berlin verschwinden

"The family having moved in 1999 without knowing, no further investigations were possible, according to the police."

It's a bit upsetting to read this..

 

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I wonder if police have any identifiers for him, because it sounds like perhaps they don't.

Maybe a relative can get in touch with police in Berlin and try to get the case reopened. I think if a parent, sister, brother or even another relative could give a DNA sample, it would help identify him, if he were ever found.

He was just a kid. What a sad case.

 

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I wonder if police have any identifiers for him, because it sounds like perhaps they don't.

Maybe a relative can get in touch with police in Berlin and try to get the case reopened. I think if a parent, sister, brother or even another relative could give a DNA sample, it would help identify him, if he were ever found.

He was just a kid. What a sad case.

I don’t know I wasn’t able to find this information..
We dont have missing people database such as Namus here in Europe unfortunately
I don’t even know if his family is still searching for him or if they did just "give up"

Anyway, as you said, a very sad case indeed

 

[ChatteringBirds]

And

Marcel Hermeking, age 10, went missing from Berlin in 1997.

Sandra Wißmann, age 12, went missing from Berlin in 2000.

 

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A lot of kids went missing in Germany (which is not such a big country btw) around the same time period
I think some of them are definitely related