In the case of two missing persons from Schleswig-Holstein, the investigators meanwhile go from a deliberate submersion of a 41-year-olds. The wife and her eight-year-old son had disappeared on Sunday in Brunsbüttel.
She had previously cleared her and her son's account, the police said. In addition, they have had their missing identity papers on the disappearance on Sunday. She had already sold her car a few days earlier.
In addition, the woman would have to take a day after her escape a prison sentence of one year and six months. Reason were according to police several frauds. In addition, a witness reported on Thursday to the investigator. The woman wanted to sell him a few days ago stuff and mentioned that she wanted to settle.
A suicide in the Elbe is made by these facts increasingly unlikely, the officials said. The whereabouts of mother and son are still unknown. The woman's mobile phone is switched off.
Rescue workers had stopped the large-scale search on the Elbe and on the banks in the mud before Brunsbüttel on Tuesday. A young woman had turned on the authorities on Sunday night, because the 41-year-old and her child had gone after the announcement of a suicide across the Elbe dike in the direction of the water. According to the fire department, this was a 19-year-old daughter of the missing.