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11-year-old allegedly involved in 10-year-old’s death
Police forces block the road to a child and youth welfare center. A 10-year-old was found dead at the facility. photo
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There is movement in the case of a dead girl in Wunsiedel. According to the trace evaluation, an eleven-year-old from the same child welfare facility is said to have been involved.
After the death of a ten-year-old girl, the police, after finding traces, assume that an eleven-year-old was involved. The results of securing evidence “point to the involvement of an eleven-year-old boy from the facility in Wunsiedel,” said the police and public prosecutor’s office in Wunsiedel on Friday. “Since the eleven-year-old boy is not criminally responsible, he was placed in a secure facility as a preventive measure.”
The girl was found dead in her room in the child and youth welfare facility on Tuesday. The public prosecutor assumed a homicide.
In the course of the investigation, the Soko forces immediately secured traces at the scene of the crime and left them to the State Criminal Police Office for evaluation, it said.
A hearing of the eleven-year-old was still pending according to the police on Friday. Further measures would be taken in close coordination with the youth authorities.
Bavaria’s Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann (CSU), praised the experts involved in the investigation: “Thanks to the meticulous and highly committed investigations, a person involved in the crime could be identified in a comparatively short time.” It is now a matter of “clarifying the exact background of this horrific act”.
Press release of April 6th