In Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, five children were found dead in a private apartment.
As the police stated, the mother of the children is considered a suspect.
In
Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
, five
children were
found dead in a private apartment
on Thursday
*.
As the
Wuppertal police
announced, the
mother of
the children is
suspected
.
Dark details from the family history have now become known.
(see update from September 4, 11:26 a.m.)
The 27-year-old is currently in
hospital
after a failed suicide attempt
.
She is under
police protection
.
Update from September 6th, 9.28am
: The city of Solingen is deeply saddened.
The Lord Mayor Tim-O.
Kurzbach wrote an emotional letter to his citizens.
“The news of the family tragedy on the Hasseldelle, which cost the lives of five children between the ages of one and eight, leaves me speechless. Like so many people in my hometown, it hits me right in the heart - as a person, as a family man and as mayor .
Something has happened among us that is incomprehensible, ”writes the Lord Mayor.
After the news, he felt an infinite amount of sadness and sympathy from all sides.
"We have to deal with the shock and come to terms with the tragedy," said Kurzbach.
It is too big to just go back to business.
It is now time to mourn and pause.
In the letter Kurzbach also points out that the local election campaign will be suspended in the coming days and that other events will also be canceled.
On Saturday evening hundreds of people gathered in front of the house in Solingen to commemorate the five dead children and to say goodbye to them.
They answered a call from the Hasseldelle district.
Solingen: Donation account set up
Update from September 5, 5:15 p.m.:
After the violent death of five children in
Solingen
, the only surviving eldest son in the
family
- an eleven-year-old boy -
needs
rest, according to a victim advocate.
"In such a situation, people need time - and this time must be given to the boy and his grandmother," said the victim protection officer of the state of
North
Rhine-Westphalia
, Elisabeth Auchter-Mainz, on
Saturday to
the German press agency.
She spoke to the responsible authorities and got the impression that the eleven-year-old and grandmother in
Mönchengladbach
would be well looked after
with the support of
emergency
pastors, said the victim protection officer.
Many questions are open for the future - such as where and with whom the boy should live and go to school in the future.
"But that I'm too early to say now, it has to go one way or the other."
Meanwhile, the city wants to
set up
a
donation account
on Monday
, which will, among other things, pay for the funeral of the five killed children.
A city spokesman said on Saturday that numerous offers from people willing to donate had already been received via social media.
Solingen: five children killed by their own mother?
Neighbors are in shock
Update from September 5th, 11.43 am:
The rumor mill about the violent
death of the five children in Solingen is
simmering and while the residents * gather in front of the house locked by the police, some of them ask for more
sensitivity and compassion:
"Since the evening after the fact, our
youngest neighbors are
questioned and
interviewed
.
We urge you to be sensitive to those affected.
We mourn five young people who lost their lives.
We mourn with our neighbors.
We are in shock.
“Appeals a neighborhood representative in an interview with the
Solinger Tagblatt
.
The
case is also causing a stir on
social media
.
Here,
speculations and rumors
about the 27-year-old suspect
mother
pile up
.
Five children lose their lives.
While people mourn for these children, bewilderment and dismay are paired, some beings have nothing more to ask than the nationality of the mother.
When exactly did you give up your humanity.
Repulsive.
#Solingen
- Derya Türk-Nachbaur (@derya_tn) September 3, 2020
The
mother
,
who was under
police protection
,
lived
separately from her husband
with four children and two children from previous relationships.
The investigators suspected on Friday that the
single parent
committed
the act in a state of
emotional overload
after the separation
.
There is also the
suspicion
that possible warning signs may have been overlooked in the course of the coronavirus lockdown *.
Update from September 5, 9:13 a.m.:
The
surviving eleven-year-old
son of the suspects from
Solingen spread
the news of the death of his siblings via
.
In the
picture
interview, a school friend tells of
the boy's
call for help
:
"I just wanted to tell you that you won't see me anymore because all of my
siblings
are dead. PS: I would be happy if you would call me."
The
investigation
against the boy's mother continues.
She
is said to have killed the five siblings
at the
breakfast table
while the oldest was at school.
According to investigators, the 27-year-old finally picked the boy up from school and put him on a train to
see
his
grandmother
.
Here he learned of the
death of his siblings
.
In coordination with the youth welfare office, the eleven-year-old is currently with his grandmother.
Stephan Hiller from BVkE says that he needs to be given very intensive psychological care: "I wish the child had the best support."
Update from September 5, 8.31 a.m
.: After the violent death of five children in
Solingen
, the family's neighbors want to
say goodbye
this Saturday with a string of lights and a
minute's silence
.
All residents are asked to step outside the door at 6.50 p.m. and form a chain of lights.
The mother of the five children is suspected of killing the children.
A judge has issued an arrest warrant against her on
suspicion of murder
.
Solingen: The family of the five killed children was known to the youth welfare office
Update from September 4, 8 p.m.:
After
investigators and the public prosecutor's office had given
further details on the terrible act of Solingen on Friday in a press conference, there is now more information.
According to the investigators, there were no
indications
that the
child was
at
risk
before the act
.
"We have no evidence of any abnormalities in the family," said Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt from the
Wuppertal public prosecutor's office
on Friday.
The city had previously announced that the family of the five children killed was known to the city
youth welfare office
before the crime.
“The family received the necessary support from the city of Solingen.
The youth welfare office has also
submitted
possible
offers of help
, ”explained the city.
"At no point in time were there any findings on abnormalities or a potential risk to the children."
Meanwhile, the family's neighbors want to
mourn the five dead children with a string of lights and a minute's silence
on
Saturday evening
.
As reported by the dpa, the
neighborhood association called
"Wir in der Hasseldelle" on Friday to step outside the door at 6:50 pm and form a chain of lights. All residents are invited to this act of remembrance. "The death of five children hits our neighbors, us and the Hasseldelle in the heart ", it said in the call to the fairy lights." We are in shock. "
Five dead children in the apartment: "Send the police, the children are dead" - investigators express terrible suspicions
Update from September 4, 5 p.m .:
Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt, from the
Solingen public prosecutor
, explains that evidence of suffocation and previous sedation had been found in all five children.
So far, however, there is only evidence that the ultimate
cause of death
has not yet been clarified.
This does not rule out the possibility that the children may have been poisoned.
The
mother of
the children is now being investigated for fivefold murder.
The woman is currently not available for questioning.
"A
decision
on the
application for detention
can only be made when the adhesion is established
," explains Kaune-Gebhardt.
Solingen: Children found dead in the apartment - the police give the first details
Update from September 4, 4:55 p.m.:
Marcel Maierhofer, head of the homicide squad, confirms that
no evidence of a
murder
weapon was
found
at the
crime scene
.
In the kitchen, when the
emergency services
arrived
, the remains of breakfast were discovered on the table.
Whether poison or other substances might have been mixed into the children's food at this breakfast cannot yet be said.
Maierhofer confirms that the mother of the dead children set out with the eleven-year-old boy.
Accordingly, the woman should have informed her mother, the grandmother of the children, about the act on the way to the train station.
"Send the police into the apartment, the children are dead," said her mother's wife on WhatsApp. She should also have confessed to her mother that she was not doing well because of her partner's separation. According to Maierhofer, the couple should have confessed Have lived in separation for a year and in the middle of the year there is said to have been a
family
dispute, in which the
police are
said to have been informed.
While the children's grandmother
had alerted
the
emergency
services, the woman tried to take her own life.
It must be assumed that the woman committed the act in a psychologically unstable state.
The head of the
homicide squad
explains at the
press conference
that it cannot yet be ruled out that the eldest son survived only by chance.
Update from September 4th,
4:50 pm
:
Robert Gereci, the
head of operations
, confirmed at the
press conference
that three girls and two boys were found dead in the act on Thursday.
The mother of the children is the only suspect.
They have a total of six children, only the oldest son survived.
Four of the dead children come from one marriage, the fifth child killed comes from another relationship.
The woman's eldest son also comes from another
relationship
.
None of the three fathers are suspected.
Gereci confirmed at the press conference that the grandmother of the dead children had raised the alarm at the police station.
Her daughter informed her shortly beforehand about her act.
While the emergency services had pried open the door of the apartment, the police were informed that the surviving child, the 11-year-old boy, had told friends in a group chat that his siblings were dead.
Shortly afterwards, the child was found with his grandmother.
Gereci confirms that around 80 emergency services were involved in the operation on Thursday.
Around 40 emergency services were still involved on Friday.
“Five children from Solingen perished in a tragically terrible way,” explains the head of operations.
In addition, colleagues were also dependent on support after the deployment.
Update from September 4, 4:47 p.m.: The
police and public prosecutor's office are now
providing
information in a press conference.
Solingen: children found dead in apartment - family was in contact with youth welfare office
Update from September 4, 4.40 p.m.:
The family of the five killed
children from Solingen
was already known to the city youth welfare office before the act.
“The
family received
the necessary support from the city of Solingen
.
The
youth welfare office
has also submitted possible offers of help, ”announced the city on Friday, without giving any details.
“At no point in time was there any evidence of abnormalities or a potential risk to the children.” The city administration wrote that further information could not be provided with regard to the personal rights of the family members concerned.
Update from September 4, 4:20 p.m.:
The press conference with the police and the public prosecutor will begin in a few minutes.
Solingen: children found dead in apartment - horror in politics
Update from September 4, 4 p.m.:
The police and the public prosecutor will inform in a press conference from 4:45 p.m. on the current status of the investigation.
Update from September 4, 3:30 p.m.:
Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey
(SPD) explained what had happened in Solingen, made you sad, angry and stunned.
"Now it is time to
wait for
the
police
investigation
and check whether there have been any
indications
of problems within the family." Giffey warned against rash judgments.
She also expressed her condolences to the relatives.
Solingen: children found dead in apartment - police make statements at press conference
Update from September 4, 1:39 p.m.:
After the discovery of five killed children in
Solingen, the
police
and the public prosecutor's office
await
the autopsy result on Friday.
A police spokesman in Wuppertal initially did not want to comment on a report in the "Bild" newspaper, according to which the children's mother could have poisoned them.
According to the newspaper, the children's bodies between the ages of one and eight showed no external injuries.
In general, the police are
largely
holding back before the
press conference
scheduled for around 4.45 p.m. on Friday
.
Meanwhile, many residents and neighbors of the family are deeply bewildered *.
There is also increasing speculation from friends of the family.
For example, the surviving son is said to have described the tragic events of a friend.
The surviving
11-year-old brother
reportedly
told
a friend about the
death of his five siblings
in voice messages.
A boy from the neighborhood told the family in an RTL interview.
In an interview with RTL, he describes the son of the 27-year-old mother and alleged perpetrator as "mostly a bit sad".
Said friend of the survivor sent him screenshots of the tragic news flow.
In it, the eleven-year-old brother of the five dead children reported to his friend that his mother asked him to come out of school earlier.
Allegedly because of a doctor's appointment.
Only later did his mother tell him about the death of his siblings.
She is said to have explained her death with an accident.
A truck hit the back of a taxi in which she was traveling with her younger siblings.
That would have killed the five.
In the further course of the message, the boy is said to have said goodbye to his girlfriend - he will not come back.
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Five dead children found in NRW - neighbor tearfully raises serious allegations against the police
Update from September 4, 12.40 p.m.:
The background to the
family drama
with five dead children in
Solingen
is still opaque.
A
police
press conference is
scheduled
for Friday afternoon
, in which the investigators want to present the first state of knowledge.
Meanwhile, tragic details from the life of the young family condense.
The first allegations against the authorities are also loud.
She has tears in her eyes as she speaks.
The woman wants to be a resident, a neighbor of the family in whose apartment the five children were found dead on Thursday.
Several times there have been
police operations
and visits from the
youth welfare office
, says the resident in an interview with
RTL
.
She wants to know from a direct friend of the alleged perpetrator, a young woman of 27 years and mother of six.
The husband of the 27-year-olds and father of the younger children were also taken away several times by officials.
"The police only come here if you are beaten," she says.
You experienced that yourself.
Many neighbors held back, according to the local resident.
“They say: 'The woman was not conspicuous'.
But that's not true. ”
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Solingen / NRW: Five dead children - Laschet announces comprehensive clarification
Update from September 4th, 12:34 p.m.:
The
death of five children in Solingen
leaves shock and despair not only among the residents.
In a press conference on Friday morning, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister
Armin Laschet
(CDU) also addressed the family drama.
Laschet announced a comprehensive investigation.
"Our authorities will do everything possible to clear up the incident," Laschet told journalists in Düsseldorf on Friday.
He expressed his condolences to the bereaved and those affected.
"That makes you pause in day-to-day business and think about the really important things in life."
Drama in North Rhine-Westphalia: five dead children found in apartment - gloomy details from the past revealed
Update from September 4th, 11:26 am:
There are still many questions in the drama about the five dead children who were found in a private apartment in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
The autopsy of the children should now provide information about how the children died at the age of 18 months, two, three, six and eight years.
The 27-year-old mother is suspected.
As the
picture
now reports, the police should have noticed the family months ago.
Apparently the father of the younger children tried to take his own life at the end of April 2020.
The young mother is said to have prevented this attempt at the time.
The police are said to have offered help at the time, but the couple did not use it.
This is reported by Bild.de.
Solingen / NRW: Five dead children found in the apartment
Update from September 4, 9:33 a.m.:
Five children dead - and their mother under suspicion: After the Solingen crime, the focus is now on educating people.
The investigators want to question neighbors and
inform them about the background of the case
at a
press conference
on Friday afternoon.
During the night, depressed people had lit more candles in front of the entrance to the apartment building, as a dpa reporter reported.
According to
crime
expert Axel Petermann, the
case indicates
the mother's helplessness and lack of perspective *.
Possible warning signs for the act were also possibly
not recognized in time
because of the
coronavirus pandemic
, Petermann told the German press agency.
For example, it is conceivable that if school lessons and kindergarten care were canceled, mechanisms that would otherwise have enabled help or support could not take effect.
Drama in North Rhine-Westphalia: mother is said to have killed five of her children - one of the children saved himself to grandmother
Update from September 4, 6.59 a.m
.: Before the
drama in Solingen
(see original
report )
,
according to the police,
another
son of
the
27-year-old mother
drove
with her to the Düsseldorf train station and from there alone to his
grandmother
in
Mönchengladbach
.
Accordingly, the
eleven-year-old is
in a
“safe family environment”
.
The grandmother, who had recently been in contact with her daughter, alerted the police.
According to a report in the
Bild
newspaper, she informed the officials that her daughter had killed her children and was now on her way with another child to kill herself.
As a result, officers found the
five bodies
in the apartment in an apartment building in
the early afternoon
.
Drama in Solingen with five dead children: 40 police officers on site
According to the police, the children killed were
three girls
aged 18 months, two and three years old, and
two boys
aged
six and eight years respectively.
Your cause of death will be "
clarified
within the framework of the investigation and an
autopsy
".
The police said they were there with more than
40 colleagues and
immediately began investigating the circumstances and the background to the crime.
Drama in NRW: mother is said to have killed five of her children - "Rescue workers came out crying"
Update from September 3rd, 10:40 pm:
Did the 27-year-old mother from
Solingen
poison
her five
children
?
As bild.de reports, according to the
investigators'
initial findings, there are
no visible injuries on the
corpses of
the five
children between
the ages of one and eight.
Therefore, there is a suspicion of
poisoning
.
The result of the toxicological investigation is still pending.
Drama in NRW: Solingen's mayor visits the crime scene with five dead children - "inconceivable and incomprehensible"
Update from September 3, 8 p.m.:
Solingen's
Lord Mayor
Tim Kurzbach
visited the house on Thursday evening where the
police
found five children dead at noon.
"For me it is still incomprehensible and incomprehensible," writes the
SPD politician
on his Facebook page.
Today is a day of mourning
for his city of
Solingen
.
Kurzbach further reports that he lit a candle in front of the house for the deceased and asked all residents of
Solingen
to do the same this evening.
In the meantime,
Focus.de
spoke to residents who had
observed
the arrival of the
police
.
Accordingly, the
emergency services broke
open the door with a crowbar and went into the apartment.
"When the police and rescue workers came out crying, it was clear to us that something bad must have happened," a local resident told the portal. The police have since announced that they had made contact with the father of the
children
who had been
killed
. However, no further information was provided announced.
Solingen / North Rhine-Westphalia: Five dead children - police chief speaks of a "shocking dimension"
Update September 3, 16:44:
Even
Solingens police chief
Markus Röhrl was met by the events ". This is a harrowing dimension" To his knowledge was "never ever come across in our Bergisch before that," Röhrl told the dpa.
The
police could not provide any information about
the
cause of death of
the five
children
at the moment.
According to image information, the
victims are
said to be
three girls aged one, two and three years, and two boys aged six and eight.
Solingen: NRW Interior Minister Reul shocked by "family drama" - "fills me with great sadness"
Update from September 3, 4:21 p.m.:
What had previously been speculated by several media outlets has now been partially confirmed by the police.
As the spokesman for the local
police Wuppertal
announced, the mother of five in true
Solingen
found dead
child
as
suspects
.
He also stated that the woman then tried to kill herself by throwing herself in front of a S-Bahn.
The 27-year-old survived the attempt, was rescued by the fire department and taken to a
hospital
.
Even
Herbert Reul
(CDU), the interior minister of
North Rhine-Westphalia
has in the meantime to the events in
Solingen
expressed: "The family drama from
Solingen
fills me with great sadness, and right now I am small with my thoughts and my prayers at five
Children
who were torn from life so terribly early, ”said the 68-year-old on Thursday in
Düsseldorf
.
Solingen / NRW: five children found dead - grandmother probably called the police
Update from September 3, 3:22 p.m.:
Now there are the first details about the discovery of five
dead children
in
Solingen
.
According to the picture, the grandmother of the children from Mönchengladbach called the police.
She reportedly said that her 27-year-old daughter killed five of her children.
She said she was traveling with another child to commit suicide.
According to the report, the
police
then found the
dead children
in the apartment.
They should be one, two, three, six and eight years old.
Solingen / NRW: Five dead children found - new details announced
According to the report, the mother jumped in
front of an S-Bahn
in
Düsseldorf
in
the early afternoon
.
She survived seriously injured and is under
police protection
.
At the moment she shouldn't be accessible.
In addition, another child at the age of 11 is said to have been found intact with the grandmother.
The German press agency also reports with reference to safety circles.
+
The forensics department enters the apartment building in Solingen, where the police had previously found five dead children.
© Oliver Berg / dpa
Drama in Solingen / North Rhine-Westphalia: Five dead children discovered in a private apartment
First report
: Solingen - In
Solingen
in
North Rhine
-
Westphalia
a bad discovery has been made.
The
bodies
of
five dead children were found.
The
police
in
Wuppertal confirmed this
on Thursday.
The investigators assume a crime based on initial findings.
Solingen: Terrible find in North Rhine-Westphalia - five dead children discovered in an apartment
The children were in a
private
-
Flat
been discovered, a police spokesman said.
It remained unclear who discovered the children.
Information on the
cause of death
and possible
suspects
or possible
arrests
have not yet been given.
There is also no information about the
age of
the
children
or the
parents
.
The bodies were found in an
apartment
in an
apartment building
.
Police and rescue workers are on site.
Solingen is located in the Bergisches Land, around 35 kilometers from Düsseldorf.
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