Passers-by find a seriously injured boy in front of a high-rise building, and he dies shortly thereafter. On the ninth floor, the police discover a dead girl. The officials are looking for a man and assume a family background to the crime.
Two children died in downtown Hanau on Wednesday. Presumably they fell victim to a crime. According to the public prosecutor, the investigators are assuming a homicide. There are indications of a family background to the fact, a spokesman did not say any more details. Investigators are looking for a suspect. More information about the man and what relationship he might have to the dead children, a girl and a boy, were not initially known. The family had recently been looked after socially, the spokesman said.
The police were alerted at around 7.20 a.m. by passers-by who had found the boy in front of a high-rise building in downtown Hanau. When the officers arrived, he was already unresponsive, police and prosecutors said. Police officers then found the lifeless girl on the balcony of an apartment on the ninth floor, and the emergency doctor could only determine her death. The boy was taken to the city hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries shortly thereafter. According to the Hanau public prosecutor’s office, the two bodies are to be autopsied during the course of the day.
According to the first indications, the two children are probably the seven-year-old girl and the eleven-year-old boy who lived in this apartment, said a spokeswoman for the authority, but their identity has not yet been determined. “Investigators from the public prosecutor’s office and the criminal police are assuming a homicide and are now concentrating on what happened in the house in the morning,” the statement said. Neighbors would also be comprehensively questioned and traces secured, said the spokeswoman.
Police officers cordoned off the streets around the house with barrier tape and patrol cars. Onlookers stood around. Detectives in white protective gear stood on the ninth-floor balcony. The police had a drone fly over the house to photograph the crime scene from as many angles as possible. Bushes were removed in front of the house. The residential building has a total of eleven floors, with a shop and a café on the ground floor.