Nearly 40 years after the violent death of a student in Aschaffenburg, the prosecution has charged a suspect with murder. The 57-year-old is alleged to have strangled the 15-year-old on the evening of 18 December 1979 in the castle park of the city, said the senior prosecutor. The defendant is in custody, he is silent on the allegations.
The then 17-year-old is said to have sexually abused the young people, murdered and thrown 15 meters over a parapet. A police unit for the investigation of old cases had come on the track of the suspect. The investigators had arrested the man in mid-May.