Hanau: Violent death of two children - suspected father extradited to Germany

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Police operation after the body was found in May: Father suspected of murder

Photo: Boris Roessler / dpa

Almost two months after the violent death of two children in Hanau, the father of the siblings, who was suspected of murder, was extradited to Germany.

He is now in custody in Frankfurt am Main, said the Hanau public prosecutor and the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse.

Accordingly, officers of the target search of the Hessian State Criminal Police Office and the Hanau Criminal Police Office K11 picked up the 47-year-old in Paris and brought him to Germany.

The man was arrested by the French police on May 14 after an intensive search in a Paris suburb and has been in extradition custody in France since then.

The man was brought before the responsible investigating judge at the district court in Hanau in the afternoon, who ordered him to be held in custody.

According to the public prosecutor, the man had denied the crime he was accused of to the French authorities.

However, when he was presented to the magistrate, he did not comment on the allegation.

Father was conspicuous before the fact

The death of the two children on May 11 of this year caused horror across the country.

On the morning of that day, an eleven-year-old boy was found in front of a high-rise apartment building in downtown Hanau.

He died a short time later in a hospital.

Officials found his seven-year-old sister dead in the apartment where the two children had lived with their mother.

According to the investigators, the girl died of injuries caused by "sharp violence in the neck area", while the boy's cause of death is a fall from a great height.

How the fall came about is under investigation.

The father is said to have been noticed before the act in a case of domestic violence.

After the family problems became known, the Hanau Youth Welfare Office became active and organized socio-educational family support through an independent agency.

Shortly before the crime, the local social service (KSD) in Hanau had received feedback from the commissioned family support agency that "the family relationship had probably deteriorated," as the city of Hanau had announced.

That's why the KSD decided to seek dialogue and intervene again.

The children died a few days later.

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