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Sisters found murdered in Lower Saxony

The bodies of a four-month-old girl and her five-year-old sister were discovered Tuesday morning by their grandfather in Lower Saxony – just three weeks after the gruesome murder of two sisters in Bavaria.

Published: 12 April 2011 16:30 CEST

Both girls had suffered stab wounds, police said. They were called to the scene in the town of Langelsheim, near Goslar, shortly after 8am Tuesday by the girls’ grandfather. The mother, 34, was still the scene and she is now the focus of the investigation, police said.

A third daughter, also five, was taken to hospital with superficial cuts. She was being cared for by her grandparents.

The grandfather phoned the emergency services Tuesday morning and said he had just discovered the bodies of his two grandchildren in the house, police said. Paramedics rushed to the scene, but the children were already dead.

The Braunschweig state prosecutor ordered a forensic examination of the crime scene Tuesday. Police and the prosecutor’s office refused to comment further.

However a press conference is scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Just three weeks ago, the bodies of two sisters, aged eight and 11, were found by their own mother in Krailling, Bavaria. The girls’ 50-year-old uncle is the chief suspect in that case.

DPA/The Local/djw

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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