Status: 06/23/2022 10:19 p.m
In the case of the killed 15-year-old from Salzgitter, the 13 and 14-year-old suspects did not provide any information. The younger boy will soon be admitted to a psychiatric ward.
The 14-year-old is now in custody at the Hamelin Juvenile Institution on suspicion of murder. He faces up to ten years in prison, possibly more. The 13-year-old cannot be prosecuted because he has not yet reached the age of criminal responsibility. According to the municipal youth department head Dirk Haerdrich, he will be psychiatrically examined. The youth welfare office had already filed an urgent application for custodial accommodation in a child and adolescent psychiatric facility at the Salzgitter family court on Wednesday. A decision is expected soon. According to the prosecutor, both boys had not appeared criminally before the violent crime. They remain silent on the allegations.
Cell phones of the suspects are evaluated
The student’s body was found in this park. Passers-by laid flowers there.
According to Wolters, the investigation into the crime will take some time. The investigators want to hear other witnesses from the environment of the victim and the suspects. They want to understand what the two young people did up until the point of action. The cell phones of the two alleged perpetrators should also be evaluated. Police officers discovered the 15-year-old’s body on Tuesday in the undergrowth of a park in Salzgitter-Fredenberg. Relatives had reported the girl missing on Sunday evening.
Cause of death lack of oxygen
The autopsy results showed that the girl had suffocated, Wolters said. He cited lack of oxygen as the cause of death. How exactly the suffocation came about and what happened in Fredenberg on Sunday evening has yet to be clarified. It is known that the suspect and the victim come from the same neighborhood, went to the same school and also had contact with each other. According to Wolters, the 14-year-old is German, the 13-year-old has German and Russian citizenship.
Public Prosecutor’s Office: Act did not happen spontaneously
According to the public prosecutor’s office, “a certain hostility” had developed between the suspect and the victim. Not much is known about the motive for the crime. The public prosecutor’s office said only that it should be “in the personal sphere” and assumes murder for base motives. According to initial findings, the act was insidious because the victim’s suspicion and defenselessness was exploited. “It didn’t happen spontaneously,” prosecutor Wolters said on Thursday. There is no evidence of a sex crime.
Police warn of online hate and vigilantism
Meanwhile, photos of alleged perpetrators and hate comments were posted on the Internet. The pictures and videos showed uninvolved people, said the spokesman for the Salzgitter police, Matthias Pintak, the NDR Lower Saxony. “Certain people” would be prejudiced, “although they have no connection with the terrible act in Salzgitter” – and that could be punishable. He also warned against vigilantism.
Pastors take care of the dead’s classmates
Because the shock is particularly deep among schoolchildren, specially trained police officers are now on the road at schools, he said. Emergency chaplains are also on duty. Everyone was shocked and appalled by the student’s death, said Salzgitter Mayor Frank Klingebiel (CDU) on Wednesday. “I condemn in the strongest terms this cruel and cold-blooded crime,” he said, expressing his condolences to the victim’s family and friends.
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