The call was received by the police shortly before noon on Saturday. Neighbors had seen lifeless people in a single-family house in Königs Wusterhausen, Brandenburg. A little later, the police found five dead in the Senzig district – the residents of the house, as it later turned out.
Among them were three children aged four, eight and ten, as the Cottbus public prosecutor and the South Police Department announced in a joint press release in the afternoon. The two adults were 40 years old.
Now the motive for the act should be known. Accordingly, investigators found a suicide note in the house, as reported by several German media. In this the father of the family wrote that he had a vaccination certificate for his wife forged. His wife’s employer found out about this. Therefore, the 40-year-old and his wife were afraid of arrest and the loss of the children, said the chief prosecutor Gernot Bantleon on Tuesday the German press agency.