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Tim Kurzbach spent only about ten minutes in the apartment where the five children were found. Ten minutes that put the mayor of Solingen so hard that he disappears on a police bus for a long time to recover.
When Kurzbach stands in front of the microphones, he struggles to find words. “I’m very affected, incredibly affected,” he says, taking a deep breath: “Especially when you’re a parent yourself. He came to impress, to thank the officers for their professional work – “and to say a short prayer.” Kurzbach put a white candle in the blue mailbox in front of the house with the number 155. It is a poignant and helpless gesture.
Emergency vehicles, journalists and residents remain on Hasselstraße all afternoon. Police spokesman Stefan Weiand repeats the little information that is known so far on countless occasions: that the police were alerted at 1:45 p.m. and that five dead children, between one and a half and eight years old, three girls were found dead. and two children. That the 27-year-old German mother threw herself in front of a train at Düsseldorf Central Station and survived.
Another son
And that there is another son, eleven years old, who is now “in a safe family environment.” The Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia confirmed to SPIEGEL that the mother had taken her eldest son to Düsseldorf. The boy survived without physical injuries.
“Horrible”, “incomprehensible”, “terrible” – You hear these terms over and over again in conversations on Hasselstrasse. “Maybe you could have done something if you had noticed beforehand,” says Christian Alsweh. He lives in the house across the street and from his ground-floor balcony gives repeated short interviews to television crews.
Three teenagers try to be cool. They’ve been there all afternoon, that’s for sure, they explain, with all the sirens and vehicles. And they saw a policewoman leaving the apartment in horror and with tears in her eyes: “It’s over, I couldn’t go on.”
A few meters ahead is a 13-year-old boy, let’s call him Julius. He also lives here in the settlement. Yes, Julius says quietly, he knew some of the children in the family. “Two boys and a girl. One was playing outside yesterday.” He goes away. “I was still out yesterday,” he says again.
Later, Tim Kurzbach, the mayor, wrote on Facebook: “Today is a day of mourning for all of Solingen.” Ask all the fellow citizens to put a candle in the window that night in memory of the children who were killed.
A police spokeswoman confirmed that there is now contact with the children’s father. The investigators no longer want to give more information, for example, about the cause of death of the children or the family environment, that night. However, it is supposed to be a criminal act. More details should only be released at a press conference scheduled for Friday afternoon.
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