Rebecca Reusch has been missing for a year. The family lawyer is now making serious allegations against the investigators and sees parallels to the NSU trial.
- Rebecca Reusch , then 15, has been missing since February 18, 2019.
- The disappearance of the Berliner has been one of the most spectacular missing cases in recent years.
- In an interview, the Reusch family's lawyer makes serious allegations against the investigators.
Update from February 25, 2020, 12:21 p.m .: 15-year-old Rebecca Reusch has been missing for a year. There is still no trace of the Berliner . After an interview by the investigating public prosecutor Martin Glage with "Bild.de", Khubaib Ali Mohammed, the lawyer of the Reusch family , makes serious accusations. At “Bild.de” he speaks of “stiffening too early of a crime thesis by the police ”. This damages the investigation in the long term and, in extreme cases, prevents the investigation.
Ali Mohammed, who was also a victim lawyer in the NSU trial , sees parallels to the Rebecca case . “The doggedness with which, in the case of Rebecca, it is always the brother-in-law by the investigators that is the focus of the investigation, reminds me very much of the NSU investigation. Especially since the police thesis has so far led to nothing here, "he explains and adds:" So far there is not a single proof that Rebecca is no longer alive . "
In addition, the flagged photo damaged the investigation rather than supported it. The lawyer emphasized to “bild.de” that the election was made without consultation with the family: “The family did not know it and is unanimous that this reflects a wrong picture of their daughter. They wouldn't have recognized Rebecca on the street that way either. ”
Rebecca Reusch misses: Mother contradicts investigators' new consideration
Update from February 20, 2020, 3:15 p.m .: The mother of the missing Rebecca still believes that the then 15-year-old is still alive. Now the missing person's sister also speaks. Vivien Reusch explains via Instagram that the entire family believes that their “Becci” will return. "This angel disappeared a year ago," emphasizes Vivien Reusch.
Missing Rebecca: Prosecutor reveals unbelievable details - mother with new theory
Update from February 20, 2020, 12:34 pm: For exactly one year, Berlin student Rebecca Reusch has been missing any trace. A few days after her disappearance, investigators already suspect that the then 15-year-old was dead. On the anniversary of her disappearance, the missing mother now explains that the family believes in a completely different theory.
In an interview with RTL, Brigitte Reusch speculates what her daughter might have planned the morning she disappeared. Accordingly, the then 15-year-old could have left the house in the morning to take photos for her favorite band "BTS". One of the band members had a birthday that day, Brigitte Reusch told the TV station.
This theory underpins the fact that a purple blanket and a polaroid camera also disappeared with the student. The Berlin police confirmed the absence of these two items a few days after the girl's disappearance. As Rebecca's mother explains, a T-shirt with the band's imprint is said to have disappeared that day.
Did he actually kill his grandfather? The police are now looking for 22-year-old Nils from Leiningen near Hunsrück. Photos of the young man have now been released.
Case Rebecca: Prosecutor unpacks - Three new details known
Update from February 18, 2020, 6.27 a.m .: Where's Rebecca Reusch ? The then 15-year-old student from Berlin has been missing for a year. So far there is no trace of Rebecca Reusch. They were last seen in her brother-in-law's house. Rebecca's brother-in-law has been suspected of crime since her disappearance, the focus of the investigators. The police quickly assumed a crime. The family, however, continues to hope.
"I think she's really locked away (...) by some spinner who just holds her. She lives for me, ”Rebecca's mother Brigitte Reusch told RTL. She can also deal with her daughter's death. The worst thing for them is the uncertainty.
Rebecca Reusch: Famous profiler thinks brother-in-law is suspicious
Update from February 17, 2020, 10:41 p.m .: After the three new revelations about Rebecca's disappearance, Germany's best-known profiler has also spoken to the picture (information behind a payment barrier). Axel Petermann does not really give hope there.
"Of course, there is always a chance that Rebecca will still be found," says the profiler: "The only question is: How do you find her? Is she still alive or is she sadly dead? And of course that is a conjecture or a fear that should be very realistic. "
For Petermann one should also keep a close eye on Rebecca's brother-in-law : "I would start from what everyday life shows us: violence in the family, among relatives, is very widespread."
Missing Rebecca Reusch: Prosecutor reveals three new facts that make the case appear in a new light
Update from February 17, 2020, 3.45 p.m .: In the picture interview, prosecutor Martin Glage revealed three facts about the Rebecca case that shed new light on the case and were officially announced for the first time.
1. The alleged drug ride: In fact, Rebecca's brother-in-law is supposed to refer to alleged drug deals that he is said to have done in Poland. He gives this as a reason why he drove the Twingo on the highway in the morning of Rebecca's disappearance when he initially testified that he had slept. His license plate was registered. Glage said in the picture interview: “First of all, he said he had slept at that time. He later admitted that he was on a trip to Poland to do drug deals, buy things like that. ”Previously, there were only reports from BZ and Bild , according to which the suspect gave drug deals as an explanation.
2. Rebecca Reusch sent one last sign of life: Shortly before she disappeared, Rebecca sent a friend a selfie. It suggests that she was still alive at the time. Glage: “There you can see it. She always sent a photo to a friend. This morning too. It was so common that the friend sent back a photo of herself. But it could no longer be delivered. "
3. No suspicious traces in the house: Was there evidence of a fight in the house? Any body fluids that have been found? Obviously not. Prosecutor Glage said in the picture interview that the trace in the house of Rebecca's brother-in-law was “relatively inconspicuous”. "We have no concrete evidence of an act of violence or a crime there in the house." That then also meant that an "urgent suspicion" of the brother-in-law could no longer be maintained. But he is still considered accused, suspect.
Case of Rebecca: fortune tellers and seers reported to the police in search of missing persons
Update 15.07: The prosecutor Martin Glage also talks about bizarre information from the population in the picture interview. There would have been information from visionaries and fortune tellers who wanted to know the suspected location of Rebecca's body due to "some wild boar", as well as reports that the student had been seen alive in parts of the world. That is the danger in public searches. The investigators could not have done anything with many clues, said Glage. In the end, these would only take a lot of time and effort.
Update from February 17, 2020, 9.44 a.m .: A year has now passed since the Berlin student Rebecca Reusch disappeared on February 18 without a trace. The investigating prosecutor Martin Glage (54) is now certain that the then 15-year-old died in the house of her sister and brother-in-law (27) when she stayed there. In an interview with the Bild newspaper (payment barrier) he talks about the reasons for his acceptance. "This is the criminalistic experience that we have to take into account here." After the crime had been carried out a year ago and extensive investigations had been carried out, the investigators "had no hope that Rebecca was still alive," said Glage.
Investigators in the Rebecca case firmly convinced: schoolgirl died in her sister's house
Exactly what happened in the house of Rebecca's sister that night is the subject of the investigation. "But we still believe that she died in the house ," said the prosecutor. The brother-in-law, with whom Rebecca is said to have been alone in the house when she disappeared, is still under suspicion. There are several indications against him, his statement shows inconsistencies and contradictions.
When asked whether there might be a sexual motive behind it, Glage says: “It could be so. But that would be pure guesswork. We cannot say that. We simply don't know exactly what happened in that house. ”
Mysterious missing person case: will Rebecca Reusch ever be found?
Glage can only speculate whether the student will ever be found. "I have ten more years of service if everything goes well with the public prosecutor here, and I actually intend to solve the case during this time, especially with the help of the homicide commission," the prosecutor hopes.
Glage has never seen a suspect outsmart all technology and mantrailer dogs and make a person disappear without a trace. In the case of the missing student, this could have several causes. "Either he's particularly skillful, he's incredibly lucky, or he's not the culprit," said Glage.
According to Glage, the search for Rebecca Reusch is not yet a so-called cold case . In any case, there is no such keyword in the Code of Criminal Procedure. If the case is given to a special investigation at some point, it will be searched in much larger and longer sections. "But we're not there yet," emphasizes the prosecutor.
Rebecca Reusch: expert restores her last cell phone video - does it bring the decisive turning point?
Update from February 14, 2020, 10.11 a.m .: One year after the disappearance of 15-year-old Rebecca Reusch, there are new developments for the first time in a long time. Her last sign of life was a WhatsApp voice message that she sent on the morning of her disappearance. Now more data could be saved from her cell phone.
A scene from Rebecca Reusch's last cell phone video, which RTL has now published.
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As RTL reports, one of their technology experts, in collaboration with the family, was able to create a backup of their smartphone . The previously unpublished material was handed over to a police lawyer. Several photos and two videos were found in the data saved. Rebecca recorded the videos on the TikTok app. The popular Chinese video portal offers the possibility, as was once the case with the mini-playback show, to produce music clips to which you only have to move your lips and dance.
Rebecca's videos show her dancing to a remix of the song "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls. It was nice for the family to see the videos and photos. You can see how much fun she would have always had, Mother Brigitte explained to RTL in tears. Rebecca's sister Vivien has mixed feelings about the videos: “It is definitely very valuable, you have so little of the past few days, you weren't prepared for it. You look at it with a laughing eye on one side and a crying one on the other, but I'm very happy that we have it now. ”
In the videos , the then 15-year-old wore torn jeans. According to her mother, it was the same pants that Rebecca had on the day she disappeared. She hopes people can recognize her daughter. "It won't be the clothes after a year. And it will not be the hair length anymore and it is still in puberty - I do not know what it could look like now ... But maybe through the movement, the dancing, although it is a bit choppy . “So now the turnaround could be possible in the case that her family still dreams of. A witness might come forward who recognizes Rebecca with the new recordings.
You can see the recordings here at rtl.de.
Rebecca Reusch: A year ago the 15-year-old student disappeared - "Where are you at?"
First report from February 12, 2020:
Berlin - "Where are you at?", "What happened to you?": Half a year after Rebecca Reusch's disappearance, her sister Vivien posted a touching message on Instagram. But the Berlin woman has still not shown up. Even a year after "Becci" was reported missing, there was no trace of the then 15-year-old girl. To this day, users who want to encourage the family keep coming back to Vivien's Instagram account: “I'm so sorry for you. I hope it will be found and then you can live in peace again, ”writes one user. "May Rebecca return home!" - "May Rebecca come back home!" Posted an apparently English-speaking Instagram user. But if you are realistic, you know that with each passing day, the hope that Rebecca will be found alive disappears a bit.
Rebecca Reusch: The weekend before her disappearance she spent with her older sister
Review: Rebecca is seen alive for the last time in the morning of February 18, 2019. The student, who was 15 at the time, had spent the weekend with her older sister Jessica (then 27) and her husband Florian R. in their house in Berlin's Neukölln district. Jessica leaves the house at around 7 a.m. because she wants to take the children to the day care center - her husband claims that after a company party she goes to bed to sleep. At around 7.15 a.m., Jessica asks her husband to wake Rebecca up because the 15-year-old has to go to school. When Florian R. enters the living room, Rebecca is not there. Because Rebecca doesn't show up at school either, her family reports the girl to the police as missing. At the same time, the relatives start a search for "Becci" .Rebecca's parents also appear on TV and comment on the fate of their daughter.
Rebecca: A few days after her disappearance, the homicide squad takes over - her brother-in-law is arrested
But the search is unsuccessful: On February 21, the police issue an official missing person report to Rebecca Reusch, two days later the murder commission takes over the case. Then the bang: On February 28, the police temporarily arrested Rebecca's brother-in-law Florian R. - but only three days later he was released. But the brother-in-law remains in the sights of the investigators: On March 3, Florian R.'s handcuffs click again - but again this time he has to be released shortly afterwards due to lack of urgent suspicion.
"Case number XY": Even a program on the missing person case "Rebecca" does not bring the hoped-for success
The legendary ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY" also takes on the "Rebecca" case - but here too the desired success is lacking. Rebecca's family not only suffers from her disappearance: hostilities keep coming up during the search, as Rebecca's mother Brigitte reports.
The chances of Rebecca reappearing alive are slim. But her family will continue to cling to every straw so as not to lose hope. Or as Rebecca's sister Vivien put it in her Instagram post: "There is no day we don't think about you, pray for you."
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