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Pensioner held for killing and dismembering wife

A 79-year-old man from the village of Nindorf in Lower Saxony has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his 72-year-old wife, dismembering her and leaving parts of her body on fire by the side of a road.

Published: 7 August 2011 14:35 CEST
Pensioner held for killing and dismembering wife
Photo: DPA

The burning body parts were found on Friday night and Saturday morning in Goldbeck near Buxtehude, less than two miles from the couple’s home. The man denies the charges. Police spent Sunday searching the home and the man’s car.

A police spokesman said investigators believe the murder is the culmination of a domestic drama that has been continuing for several years, but refused to add any details.

The couple lived alone and had one grown-up daughter.

The body parts were discovered by motorists who noticed the fires at the side of the road on Friday night. Pedestrians found the woman’s head, also burnt, and several items of clothing on Saturday morning.

A search was carried out involving around 100 firefighters, and several more plastic bags containing unburnt body parts were discovered in the area.

The identity of the murder victim was confirmed on Saturday night by police doctors. Relatives had reported the woman missing on Saturday evening.

Her husband was arrested soon after.

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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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