by Felice Gritti and Niels Kruse 03/10/2023, 20:31 4 mins Seven people die, including a fetus, when a 35-year-old shoots around in the Alsterdorf district of Hamburg in the church of Jehovah's Witnesses. The bewilderment is still palpable the day after. 15 hours after the shots, half a dozen police vans are still lined up in front of the Orchideenweg bus stop. But the crime scene closes. The last ambulance has just driven away, and now the red and white...
"Our thoughts are with the victims and the bereaved," said Martin Epp, spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany. On Thursday evening, an armed suspected gunman broke into a community center of the religious community in Hamburg and fatally injured seven people there. "Our thoughts are with the victims and the bereaved," said Martin Epp, spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany. On Thursday evening, an armed suspected gunman broke into a community center of the religious community in Hamburg and fatally...
Several dead, many injured in Hamburg Four shot periods - metallic complaint: This is how eyewitnesses experienced the bloody deed among Jehovah's Witnesses Police officers in special equipment are on duty in Hamburg. photo © Jonas Walzberg/dpa Numerous shots are fired during a meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses in Hamburg-Alsterdorf. An eyewitness reported that she heard four volleys. "It sounded very metallic." Within minutes, a large-scale police operation begins in the north of the Hanseatic city. At 9:15 p.m., the Hamburg...
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It's that one question everyone asks: Why? Why did a 17-year-old - according to the police and public prosecutor's office, at least - kill his 14-year-old sister in the central Franconian town of Weisendorf (Erlangen-Höchstadt district) last Friday, Epiphany?The investigators ask themselves this question, they are looking for a motive. And the local people are asking themselves this question too. Karl-Heinz Hertlein (CSU), the mayor of the market with almost 7,000 inhabitants, speaks of "the unfathomability" inherent in what happened:...
In the case of the act of violence in Franconia with a killed 14-year-old and a seriously injured woman, the police are still looking for the motive. An autopsy on the girl's body showed that she died as a result of multiple stab wounds, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Nuremberg-Fürth said on Monday. Investigators suspect a knife was the murder weapon.The exact course of action in Weisendorf near Erlangen is also unclear, said the spokesman. The suspected...
About a year after the violent death of a 47-year-old woman in Laufach, Lower Franconia, investigators convicted her father as the perpetrator. The 83-year-old shot himself after the crime, the public prosecutor's office in Aschaffenburg and the police headquarters in Lower Franconia announced on Tuesday.The two dead were found in an apartment in Laufach (Aschaffenburg district) in mid-October. The woman died from head injuries and her father from gunshot wounds. The police had temporarily arrested the woman's partner as a...
bloody deed Horror in Illerkirchberg - arrest warrant for murder Thomas Strobl (kneeling, CDU), Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg, and Ahmet Basar Sen (r), Ambassador of Turkey in Germany, lay a wreath at the scene of the knife attack on two girls during a minute's silence. photo © Bernd Weißbrod/dpa A man is said to have attacked two girls on the way to school with a knife. A 14-year-old girl dies. A warrant has been issued for the man's...
The murder of a schoolgirl in Illerkirchberg near Ulm caused horror across the country. Even the day after the crime, there are still many unanswered questions. What is known so far. The day after, a sea of candles and flowers reminds of what happened on Monday in Illerkirchberg near Ulm. The community with its 5,000 inhabitants has become the scene of a crime that – it can be assumed – will occupy the whole country for a long time to...
Sindelfingen Guilty yet free? Bloody deed is tried again The accused hides his face behind a newspaper. photo © Bernd Weißbrod/dpa More than 27 years ago, a man stabbed a woman on the street. There is no doubt about it. He is convicted of murder - and is now in the dock again for the same crime. When he stabs and kills the woman in Sindelfingen during the night, the word of the year is "multimedia" and Helmut Kohl still...
