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Prosecutors in the western German city of Solingen launched an investigation into the murder of five children found dead in an apartment after autopsies established they had been sedated and suffocated.
Authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia filed five murder charges and issued an arrest warrant on behalf of the mother of five, a 27-year-old woman who is currently receiving medical attention after jumping in front of her. a train, according to Deutsche Welle.
“Five children from Solingen died in a tragic and terrible way”Robert Gereci, the police officer leading the investigation in this case, told a press conference. “The police found five dead children in an apartment of a large house.”
Gereci also said that the five children are brothers, three girls and two boys, 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 years old. Forensic scientists say they all died from Wednesday night to Thursday of last week.
Forensic scientist Marcel Maierhofer said autopsies on the children indicated that they had been sedated and suffocated.
The woman’s eldest son, an 11-year-old boy, went to school on Thursday morning as usual. His mother called the school during the day and said she wanted to agree with him, citing a death in the family. The woman then went to the Düsseldorf train station, where she apparently jumped in front of a train. “With the intention of committing suicide”Maierhofer said.
The children’s grandmother, who lives in another city, alerted police to a possible murder on Thursday afternoon, after receiving several disturbing messages from her daughter, very shocked after breaking up with her husband at the same time. , father of four minor children.
Investigators said they were looking into the possibility that the husband’s separation played a role in the case.
The family was already in the records of the authorities, after several incidents about which no details were given. None of the woman’s three parents were considered suspects.
None of the three parents was considered a suspect at the time, investigators said.
