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A mother in Solingen is said to have murdered five of her six children. On Saturday night, residents want to cry with a string of lights. The city says there were no warning signs before the crime.
Solingen mourns the death of five children who died violently and many citizens want to help with donations. On Saturday night, some 800 people responded to a call from the Hasseldelle district to observe the dead children with a minute of silence. Many citizens have offered donations through social media, he said. The city will open a donation account on Monday, from which funeral costs can be paid, a city spokesman said. The future of the only surviving child, an eleven-year-old boy, was not clear at first. He is with his grandmother in Mönchengladbach.
North Rhine-Westphalia state victim protection officer Elisabeth Auchter-Mainz said she was under the impression that the child and grandmother were well cared for, also by emergency chaplains. There are many unanswered questions about the future, but first the boy and her grandmother needed time. “In such a situation, people need time, and this time should be given to the child and his grandmother.”
Mother still can’t be heard
The 27-year-old mother of the Solingen family is said to first anesthetize her children aged one to eight years and then suffocate them. An arrest warrant was issued for the woman. Only the eleven-year-old boy who was in the school at the time of the crime survived. The mother subsequently threw herself in front of a train in Düsseldorf and was seriously injured. According to authorities, she could not be questioned on Friday. There was no new information about her health on Saturday.
Solingen says goodbye: the neighbors have written the names of the dead children on balloons. (Source: Roberto Pfeil / dpa)
The family was already known to the city’s youth welfare office before the crime. “The family received the necessary support from the city of Solingen. The youth welfare office has also made possible offers of assistance,” the city said, without giving any details. “At no time were there any findings of abnormalities or a potential risk to the children.”
Broken marriage as the reason for the act?
Investigators suspect that the single mother of six committed the deed in a state of emotional overload after the separation from her husband. The marriage broke up, police and prosecutors reported Friday. Before the crime, the woman had been separated from her last husband, the father of four of her children, for a year. She is the only suspect.
People who committed suicide and wanted to “take” others feel a longing for “redemption”, says psychiatrist Prof. Hans-Jörg Assion from the Clinic of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL) in Dortmund. “Your own redemption from suffering is transferred to other people who are included in the feeling of being tired of life, so to speak, to” redeem “them also from suffering.” Such behavior is very rare. If there are warning signs, such as talking about redeeming others from suffering on earth, trauma clinics might help.
Forensic doctors found evidence during the autopsy that the children were anesthetized and then suffocated or suffocated. However, it will be necessary to wait for more toxicological studies to be carried out. Melina (1), Leonie (2), Sophie (3), Timo (6) and Luca (8) were found dead by police officers Thursday on their cots in the family’s apartment.
