A girl was found dead in a children's home in Wunsiedel.
The public prosecutor assumes a homicide.
Dead girl in Wunsiedel: Ten-year-olds found in a children's home on Tuesday.
Three boys in the investigators' focus: consistent media reports.
“We have no suspects”: prosecutor says.
Update, Thursday, 10 a.m.:
On Tuesday, a girl (10) was found dead in a children's home in Wunsiedel.
The public prosecutor's office assumes a homicide in the case.
That said Matthias Goers from the public prosecutor's office in Hof on Thursday.
There are currently neither accused nor suspects, he emphasized.
First,
RTL
reported about it.
Dead girl in Wunsiedel: "We have no suspects at the moment"
On Tuesday, two boys aged eleven and a 16-year-old were initially targeted by the investigators.
This was reported by several media and the German Press Agency.
It is still unclear to what extent these are connected to the girl's death.
When asked by
RTL
, Goers denied that the investigation was focused on the three boys.
"We don't have a suspect at the moment," he said.
The girl had lived in a youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel.
Employees found the child lifeless on Tuesday morning.
It is currently being determined in all directions, Goers said.
On Thursday, forensics were still on site at the facility, and other witnesses were also questioned.
Wunsiedel: Dead girl found - "Incredible tragedy"
Update, Thursday, 7:04 a.m
.: A girl was found dead in a child welfare facility in Wunsiedel on Tuesday.
Many questions are still open.
Employees found the ten-year-old lifeless in a room at the facility on Tuesday, and an emergency medical team could only determine death.
According to initial findings, an autopsy of the body showed signs of third-party negligence, according to police and prosecutors.
According to the police, the girl had been cared for in the facility.
The focus of the investigators are three boys.
However, it is still unclear whether it could have been an accident.
According to information from security circles, the two 11-year-olds and the 16-year-old were not taken into police custody, but were housed in a youth protection facility.
Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann was shocked by the girl's death.
Family and Social Affairs Minister Ulrike Scharf has also spoken out.
“No one can put into words and comprehend this incredible tragedy.
I'm shattered
My deepest sympathy goes to the relatives - my thoughts are with you," said the CSU politician.
"For me there is now no question that the children and young people and especially the employees in the St. Josef facility in Wunsiedel are looked after, accompanied and supported in the best possible way," she continued.
The minister wants to be in Wunsiedel on Thursday afternoon and express her sympathy, it said.
Dead girl in Wunsiedel: Crisis team to work through events
Update, Wednesday, 7 p.m.:
The sponsor of the children's home, in which a ten-year-old was found dead, wants to work through the events with the help of a crisis team.
In this situation, the young residents of the youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel needed familiar people who would continue to take care of them, the Catholic youth welfare office of the Diocese of Regensburg (KJF) announced on Wednesday.
"They need the opportunity to ask any questions they have, and they need child- and age-appropriate answers."
The girl was found dead in a room by staff at the facility on Tuesday.
The emergency doctor could only determine the death of the girl.
According to initial findings, the investigators assumed third-party negligence.
Two boys aged 11 and a 16-year-old are the focus of the investigations.
Security circles spoke of indications that the three boys were involved in an incident that led to the girl's death.
However, it is unclear to what extent this involvement was the cause of the girl's death and whether it could have been an accident.
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A ten-year-old was found dead in a child and youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel.
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Wunsiedel: shock after the death of a girl
The church sponsor reported that people within the KJF were shocked.
A crisis team was immediately formed in the facility to catch the children and young people.
"They must be accompanied carefully and individually in the acute crisis situation and in the following weeks and months so that they can process the traumatizing event." Experts from other facilities in the area were also included in the crisis team.
According to the responsible body, around 90 children and young adults between the ages of 3 and 19 are cared for in the St. Josef children's and youth welfare center in Wunsiedel.
The staff of the house also consists of about 90 employees.
According to the KJF, it has a total of 70 facilities with a total of 4,500 employees.
"We can't believe it at all": Mourning in Wunsiedel after the death of a ten-year-old
Update, Wednesday, 5:20 p.m .:
The three boys, who are the focus of investigators after the death of a ten-year-old in a child and youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel, were not initially taken into police custody.
The German Press Agency learned this from security circles on Wednesday.
Instead, they are in a youth protection facility.
Security circles spoke of indications that the three underage boys were involved in an incident that led to the girl's death.
However, it is unclear to what extent this involvement was the cause of the girl's death and whether it could have been an accident.
Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann was "stunned" by the incident (see previous update).
The city of Wunsiedel is also in shock.
"We can't believe it," said the deputy mayor, Manfred Söllner, on Wednesday.
According to Söllner, it is a church institution that has existed in the Upper Franconian city for at least half a century.
"We only ever hear positive things about the facility." Although what is happening in the facility is still unclear, there has not been much speculation in the city so far.
"Leaves me stunned": Dead girl found in Wunsiedel
Update, Wednesday, 4:30 p.m .:
A girl was found dead in a children’s home in Wunsiedel on Tuesday morning.
Three boys have apparently come into focus (see previous update).
Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has now called for a quick clarification.
"It is important that it is now clarified as quickly as possible who was involved in the act and what the background was," said the CSU politician on Wednesday.
"The investigators from the police and the public prosecutor's office are working flat out to clarify."
His thoughts are with the bereaved, for whom a world has collapsed.
"I was deeply shocked by this terrible act and left me stunned," Herrmann continued.
The 10-year-old was found dead in a room by staff at the facility on Tuesday morning.
An emergency medical team could only determine the death of the child.
The background is still completely unclear.
There are indications that two underage boys and a teenager could have something to do with the case.
However, there are no concrete indications of involvement in the crime, according to security circles.
Dead girl in children's home in Wunsiedel: "The residents of the city are shocked"
Update, Wednesday, 12:55 p.m .:
After the 10-year-old girl was found, lying dead in a room in the St. Josef children’s home in Wunsiedel, there was a state of shock in the small Upper Franconian district town in the Fichtelgebirge.
"The residents of the city are shocked," says Manfred Söllner, Deputy Mayor of Wunsiedel, "just like me." His thoughts are now with the relatives, residents and staff of the St. Josef children's and youth facility.
Meanwhile, the police investigation continues.
"The investigations are in full swing," says Julia Küffner, spokeswoman for the police headquarters in Upper Franconia, who is on site herself, to our editorial team.
“Currently witness interviews are underway.
The entire area is still cordoned off.
The riot police are supporting the cordoning off.” There are still no results for the autopsy.
Children's home St. Josef: Dead girl in Wunsiedel - Apparently three young people are suspects
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A ten-year-old girl was found in this children's home in the background.
Two eleven-year-olds and a 16-year-old are currently suspected.
© Fricke/News5
According to consistent information from
the German press agency,
our editorial team and the
picture,
the investigations are already a good deal more advanced than officially known.
Accordingly, three young people are being specifically determined.
They are two 11-year-olds and one 16-year-old.
All three are male and are suspected of having killed the ten-year-old.
Media report: The girl had been dead for hours and was raped – "Abysses open up"
The
image
had first reported on the suspicion that the three boys had been arrested and quoted an investigator as saying: "There are abysses." According to the newspaper, there are also indications of a sexual offence.
The girl had been dead for several hours when she was found.
Police spokeswoman Küffner does not want to comment on this information when asked.
However, she clearly denies one fact, namely that the three suspects have already been arrested: "There is no one in custody."
The St. Josef child and youth welfare center has several home groups – where do perpetrators and victims come from?
Neither do the police want to say at the moment in which part of the facility the ten-year-old girl was housed.
The St. Josef child and youth welfare center in Wunsiedel consists of several areas.
There are three curative education day groups in which children of very different ages are cared for.
There are also six groups of home children of different ages.
Three for young people to young adults, two of which are housed as residential groups outside of Wunsiedel.
There are also two mixed groups with young people and children from the age of two and three (group Elisabeth and group Regenbogen) and a group exclusively for children (group sunshine).
The ten-year-old could have been in all three groups.
Whether the alleged perpetrators and victims come from the same group or from different groups, whether the perpetrators were housed in the facility at all - all this is not yet known.
After a terrible find in the children's home in Wunsiedel: the facility's management refers to a press release
The management of the St. Josef child and youth welfare center does not want to comment on the case, nor say how the children and young people in the facility are doing and where they are now housed, and refers to the police press release on request.
Wunsiedel: Girl found dead
First report, Wednesday (April 5) 10:03 a.m .:
Wunsiedel – The Upper Franconia police have so far given few details about the shocking event in a youth center in Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia.
According to the police headquarters in Upper Franconia, this is happening “for investigative tactical reasons”.
Because it is clear so far that the first examinations of the corpse showed "signs of third-party negligence in the death of the girl".
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The police secured the scene of the crime after the terrible find in Wunsiedel (symbol image).
© David Inderlied/dpa/Illustration
Wunsiedel: Employees found the dead girl in a room on Tuesday morning
Employees of the child and youth welfare center in the Wunsiedler city area found the 10-year-old lifeless on Tuesday morning (4 April) around 9 a.m. in a room at the facility.
They immediately made an emergency call.
The emergency medical team, which reached the crime scene a little later, could only determine the death of the girl.
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Terrible act in front of a holiday backdrop: a ten-year-old girl was found dead in the tranquil Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge.
The police are investigating.
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After a tragic find in Wunsiedel: the police secure the crime scene
Officers from the Wunsiedel Police Inspectorate secured the crime scene and called in reinforcements from the surrounding departments.
The Kripo Hof then took over the further investigations.
Girl found dead in shelter: Specialists discover signs of external interference
Specialists carried out extensive evidence-securing measures throughout the facility, reports the Upper Franconia police in a current press release.
The public prosecutor ordered an immediate forensic examination of the girl and an autopsy in order to clearly clarify the cause of death.
And even the first, superficial examination indicated that someone else was at fault.
Means someone attacked the girl.
The investigations are now in full swing.
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