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According to a media report, more than 3000 homicides in Germany have not been clarified

2021-12-06T02:46:19.547Z


Investigators speak of so-called cold cases: According to a report, there are currently thousands of unsolved homicides in Germany. However, these statistics are by no means complete.


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According to a newspaper report, more than 3,000 homicides in Germany are currently unresolved.

As the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" (NOZ) reported, citing information from the security authorities of the federal states, the total number is probably even higher because individual authorities did not provide any information.

As the paper writes, North Rhine-Westphalia alone has 1,160 cases.

Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony followed with 550 and 375 cold cases, respectively.

According to the report, the federal states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt could not provide any information.

This also applies to some police authorities in other federal states.

According to "NOZ", the handling of cases differs from state to state.

In some cases, special cold case units are in use that revisit the old crimes.

The Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) calls for a more concentrated approach to investigations into old homicides nationwide.

Often the cold cases are processed "in addition to everyday business", according to chairman Dirk Peglow in the "NOZ".

He said: "The establishment of so-called 'Cold Case Units' as independent offices is therefore the best solution to deal with old cases in the required form and, if possible, to clarify them."

This is not just an obligation to the victims.

The education was "of enormous importance, especially for the relatives of the victims," ​​Peglow told the newspaper.

NRW wants to found its own unit

In the summer it became known that North Rhine-Westphalia wanted to set up a kind of special commission for cold cases.

The 28 new positions of the special commission are to be filled with former investigators who "have experience in crime scene work, file management or the management of murder commissions," as the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia said.

Their tasks include digitizing files, processing cases in a structured manner, identifying opportunities for clarification and developing investigative concepts.

If new investigative approaches arise, the locally responsible criminal police will take over the case.

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Source: spiegel

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