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Heribert Beautiful–Hebhardt, a lawyer from Wuppertal, told reporters that posthumous examinations of children showed signs of sedation and suffocation, but the cause of death was still not entirely clear.
The mother, who sent her eldest son to stay with her grandmother on Thursday, before attempting suicide by throwing herself in front of a train, has not yet been questioned by police, authorities said.
The deaths caused a general commotion throughout Germany.
The police of Wuppertal He said the children’s grandmother alerted authorities to a possible crime just before 2 p.m. local time (1 p.m. in Lisbon) on Thursday.
The policemen, who arrived at the family home in minutes, forced open the door and found three girls, aged one, two and three years, and two boys, aged six and eight, dead in their beds.
There were no signs of physical violence, according to Marcel Maierhofer police force Wuppertal.
So far, investigators have determined that the woman’s 11-year-old son left for school that morning, as usual. The mother picked her up later from school and told her to go to her grandmother’s house, according to. Maierhofer.
The 27-year-old woman sent a message to her mother saying she “couldn’t go on any longer” and cited marital problems with the father of the four minor children.
“We can only speculate that the reason was the fragile marriage,” he said. Maierhofer.
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