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The 11-year-old boy is in shock, the only survivor of the family tragedy in Solingen, Westphalia, where his mother, a 27-year-old woman, killed her five siblings yesterday before attempting to kill herself by jumping under a train. from the S. Bahn, to Dusseldorf central station.
It was he who triggered the alarm. His mother had taken him with her and he only reached the city of Moechengladbach, 60 km away, by train, where he alerted his grandmother. Wuppertal police believe she left before her mother attempted suicide, spokesman Jan Battenbreg explained, confirming elements of this chilling affair.
The lifeless bodies of his brothers, three little sisters aged 1, 2 and 3 and two boys aged 6 and 8, were found by police in an apartment on Hasselstrasse in Solingen. City of 160,000 inhabitants, known for the production of knives and swords. Here the children lived with their mother, on the third floor of a gray building, around which neighbors and passers-by gathered, shocked by the incident. “The father is not a suspect and did not participate in any way in the events,” explained Battenberg, who added cautiously that the cause of the death of the children “has not yet been clarified.”
According to rumors picked up by the local media, and as yet unconfirmed by the police, the children may have been given sleeping pills, in evidently lethal amounts. A hypothesis that can be answered by the results of the autopsies ordered as part of the investigations, which start with the discovery of the bodies “under enormous pressure” and in general consternation.
Immediately after killing the children, the mother left for Duesseldorf with her eldest son – the capital is about 35 km from Solingen – and here, at the central station, the 27-year-old girl threw herself between the subway tracks, in platform 11 of the line. S1. However, the woman survived and is now hospitalized in serious condition.
“He is not yet in a position to respond. And he hopes to be able to question her, ”the spokesperson explained. Even for the police and rescuers who arrived on the scene, handling the case, in the presence of the lives of the very young lost, is a very hard experience, they say. And a feeling of bewilderment struck the entire community of the city and the Land. “It is a sad day in Solingen, because something has happened that has deeply affected our hearts,” said Mayor Tim Kurzbach, who visited the site. “The tragedy of the Solingen family fills my heart with pain. And right now I am with my thoughts and prayers close to those five children who were snatched from life so terribly early, ”said the Minister of Lands, Herbert Reul.
As for Solingen, he rarely appears in the national chronicles. With one terrible exception: it was here that, on the night of May 28, 1993, four German skinheads with neo-Nazi ties set fire to the home of a large Turkish family. Three girls and two women were killed and fourteen other family members, including some children, were injured. An episode that provoked violent protests by Turkish communities in many cities, but also large demonstrations by Germans in solidarity with the victims. As then, even now the city is upset.
