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An alleged family crime in Solingen has caused great consternation. Police discovered the bodies of five children on Thursday. The 27-year-old mother of the children, against whom an arrest warrant has been issued, is considered a suspect. At a press conference Friday afternoon, investigators reported the background.
Consequently, the police found the bodies lying on the cots. The “discovery situation” was so stressful for police that officers were “in need of attention,” investigators say. Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt, from the Wuppertal prosecutor’s office, said that during the autopsy the five children between the ages of one and eight were found to be asphyxiated and sedated. There are still no clear conclusions about the exact course of events. The results of the toxicological tests are still pending.
The homicide squad now assumes that the suspect’s mother’s apparently broken marriage has overwhelmed her emotionally and psychologically. The dead children come from two different parents. The family was already known to the municipal youth welfare office. “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 Friday, without giving details. “At no time were there any findings of abnormalities or a potential risk to the children.”
Grandma called the police
The murdered children are three girls of 18 months, two and three years and two boys of six and eight years. Another child, an eleven-year-old boy, may have only been saved because he was in school at the time of the crime, said the head of the homicide squad, Marcel Maierhofer. The presumption has yet to be confirmed. Apparently, the boy had initially accompanied the mother to the main train station in Düsseldorf. Then the boy went alone to his grandmother in Mönchengladbach.
The grandmother had alerted the police with an emergency call after her daughter apparently confessed to her on WhatsApp. The 27-year-old had already left the apartment by this time. About a quarter of an hour before the police discovered the dead children, they threw themselves in front of a train at Düsseldorf central station. She survived the suicide attempt and is currently being treated in hospital, seriously injured. She cannot be heard yet. An arrest warrant was issued against her on Friday. Prosecutor Kaune-Gebhardt said it was not yet clear whether the 27-year-old would go to a correctional hospital.
Politicians express dismay
“That makes you stop from day to day” and think about “the important things in life,” said North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) in Düsseldorf. Federal Minister for the Family Franziska Giffey (SPD) announced on Friday: “What happened in Solingen shakes our hearts, saddens, angers and stuns us at the same time: five little lives were annihilated yesterday, that is beyond our imagination of what people are capable of. what to do. “
Solingen Mayor Tim Kurzbach (SPD) was visibly shocked after a visit to the crime scene. “Today is a day that we are very sad in Solingen because an act has occurred that has deeply touched our hearts,” Kurzbach said. It means a short sentence. There was a minute of silence in front of the house Thursday night. State Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) was also surprised: “The family drama in Solingen fills me with great sadness, and right now I am with my thoughts and prayers with five young children who were torn from life so terribly early. ” “
Editor’s note: We have chosen not to report suicides, unless circumstances warrant them. The reason for our reluctance is the high copycat rate after every suicide report. If you are concerned, contact the telephone counseling immediately (www.telefonseelsorge.de). On the free hotline 0800-1110111 or 0800-1110222 you get help from advisers who have been able to point you out of difficult situations in many cases.
