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Three dead children on Easter weekend in Baden-Württemberg
According to the police, a 40-year-old made an emergency call and said he had killed his daughter in the area of a school center in the Wiblingen district. photo
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A man kills the seven-year-old daughter of his partner in Ulm. Nothing is known about the motive. It’s not the only horrifying case in the Southwest this weekend.
Two crimes against children in the South West sparked horror over the Easter weekend. Both cases appear to be acts within families. Two siblings aged seven and nine were found dead in an apartment in Hockenheim near Heidelberg on Easter Sunday.
According to the current state of investigation, the mother’s partner stabbed her seven-year-old daughter in Ulm. That said a police spokesman and confirmed a report by “focus online”. The spokesman has not yet been able to provide any information on the background to the crime. The investigating authorities initially announced that the man had killed his daughter on Monday.
According to the police, the 40-year-old reported to the officials on Monday evening via the emergency call. He therefore stated that he had killed the girl in the area of a school center in the Wiblingen district. He was then arrested by officers.
Hockenheim: Arrest warrant against the mother
After the discovery of two dead children in an apartment in Hockenheim, an arrest warrant has been issued against the mother of the seven- and nine-year-old boys. The woman is suspected of murder, said a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor in Mannheim.
The 43-year-old was arrested at the scene on Sunday. Prosecutors have not yet commented on how the children were killed. An autopsy should provide insights on Tuesday, the spokeswoman said on request.
It is also unclear so far whether the suspected woman has already commented on what happened, who lived in the apartment and where the children’s father was at the time of the crime. According to the prosecutor, the victims are brothers.