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Crime scene in Königs Wusterhausen: The father is said to have killed himself and his family
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Devid R., who is said to have shot his family and himself in Königs Wusterhausen, was apparently networked in several Telegram chat groups of the "lateral thinkers" and anti-vaccination scene.
This is shown by an evaluation by the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (Cemas), which SPIEGEL has received.
The editorial network Germany (RND) reported first.
R. wrote himself accordingly only on two days, at the end of July 2021. It was about the false claim that unvaccinated people would develop shingles after having had contact with those who had been vaccinated.
“Something like that can of course have a strong radicalizing effect.
But we only know a small part.
Therefore, it remains to be seen how the case will be cleared up, «said Josef Holnburger from Cemas to the RND.
The public prosecutor's office has not yet determined the connection between the man and the lateral thinker scene.
According to a suicide note from the suspect family father, the man had had his wife's certificate forged.
In the letter, R. also stated that he was afraid of being arrested and of having his children taken away from him.
"The man's ideas were completely wrong," said Chief Public Prosecutor Gernot Bantleon of the dpa news agency. The 40-year-old was neither known to the police, nor was the family noticed by the youth welfare office. “A prison sentence for a first-time offender is completely unthinkable. The same goes for the kidnapping of the children. ”The letter expresses the fact that the man must probably have had more psychological problems because his ideas no longer had anything to do with the facts, according to Bantleon.
The police found the five dead on Saturday in a single-family house in Königs Wusterhausen, Brandenburg, southeast of Berlin.
Witnesses saw lifeless bodies in the house and alerted the police.
According to the investigators, the bodies had probably been in the house since Friday night.
That was the result of the autopsy, as a spokesman for the prosecutor said.
bbr / has / dpa