More than 1100 missing persons cases in the Southwest

Created: 05/12/2022 07:33

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More than 1,100 people in Baden-Württemberg were missing at the beginning of April.

1143 people were listed as missing as of April 11, the Interior Ministry said in response to a request from the Greens parliamentary group, which the German Press Agency has received.

Most people were reported missing in Freiburg (214), Mannheim (129) and Karlsruhe (114).

Stuttgart – 540 of the missing were not yet of legal age.

But: The completion rate in such cases is very high, in 2021 at more than 97 percent.

"If a person is missing, it can have very banal reasons - but there can also be serious criminal cases behind it," said Green politician Oliver Hildenbrand.

A high clarification rate is gratifying.

"But we always have to look at those missing persons cases in which the whereabouts of missing persons remain unclear for years." dpa