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Chief Public Prosecutor Mies with a mannequin in the district court
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Thorsten Becker / Hanauer Anzeiger
Claudia H. reluctantly goes to the Hanau regional court.
The past is waiting for you in room A 215.
H. is invited as a witness.
She will have to remember the day her son Jan died.
His death was 32 years ago.
He was four years old when he suffocated, in his sleep, supposedly on vomit gruel.
In the meantime, Chief Public Prosecutor Dominik Mies assumes that Jan fell victim to a crime.
He is convinced that a friend of Jan's parents killed the boy for low motives.
Mies has accused Sylvia D., 73, of murder.
The wife of a former pastor is said to have tied Jan in a burlap sack around noon on August 17, 1988 to kill him.
The question is: why?
Appearance of the mother: Claudia H. is 59 years old, holds a PhD in biology, she wears a blazer, glasses, short hair.
She sits there with her back straight.
Parents like herself who have lost their child are often special witnesses.
The pain has become her life.
Questioning them requires empathy.
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