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A 39-year-old man is said to have been killed in Berlin last November in a dispute over custody of his children by his late wife's family.
Police and public prosecutors in Berlin announced that two men aged 31 and 38 were being investigated for murder and a 24-year-old woman for being an accessory to murder.
The woman was arrested in Aachen in January.
Now the arrest warrants against the two alleged main perpetrators have been issued.
According to the information, the men in Aachen and Cologne are already in custody for a robbery that has nothing to do with the death of the 39-year-old.
mother of children deceased
The victim had two small children with the sister of a suspect.
After the woman died in spring 2020, her family demanded custody of the children and kept them in Bonn.
It is said that the man wanted to defend himself in court.
There was an appointment with the family court for December.
The investigators assume that the three suspects drove together from Bonn to Berlin to kill the man.
After the fact, they fled back to Bonn and hid in the area.
The Berlin police, together with the police in Bonn and Aachen, searched several apartments and questioned people, the statement said.
Extensive evidence was confiscated.
The two children are now in the care of the youth welfare office in Bonn.
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