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Police officer at the crime scene in Salzgitter (photo from June 22)
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The violent death of a schoolgirl in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, already has consequences for the younger of the two suspects: the 13-year-old was examined by a psychiatrist and admitted to a psychiatric clinic, a city spokesman said on Sunday.
The teenager was admitted to the hospital with the consent of his parents.
He will remain there for the next few weeks.
The spokesman said that the step had been taken to ensure immediate placement until the final decision of the family court.
According to administrative information, the youth welfare office had submitted an urgent application to the Salzgitter family court on Wednesday for the young person to be placed in a child and adolescent psychiatric facility.
The body of the 15-year-old was discovered on Tuesday after a large-scale search by the police on a green area overgrown with bushes and trees.
An autopsy on the body revealed that the teenager was suffocated.
The investigators suspected that the motive for the crime was that there was apparently animosity between the victim and the alleged perpetrators.
The young people came from the same neighborhood and also had contact with each other.
The public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig accuses the 13-year-old and a 14-year-old boy of insidious murder for base motives.
The older alleged perpetrator is in custody, the younger one is not yet of criminal age.
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