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Munich woman ‘murdered boyfriend with electric saw’

A 31-year-old woman has been arrested in Munich on suspicion of murdering her boyfriend with a circular saw. Two men are also in custody in connection with the grisly crime.

Published: 11 February 2016 15:28 CET
Munich woman 'murdered boyfriend with electric saw'
Police guard the property in Haar. Photo: DPA

Police found the body on the woman’s property in Haar in the east of the city after receiving a tip-off three weeks ago.

The victim went missing in 2008 and had been presumed to still be alive, after someone reported sighting him in 2010, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.

The woman and her current boyfriend were arrested after police dug the body up in her garden and are currently in custody.

Prosecutors believe the woman murdered her ex-boyfriend in December 2008 and that she acted alone.

They also believe that she took advantage of a moment in which her victim was defenceless to carry out a premeditated murder.

A third man has now also been arrested. The 34-year-old is not alleged to have taken part in the murder but  police say he helped to dispose of the body afterwards – as did the the current boyfriend who is currently in custody.

The police believe the man, who was born in 1980, was kept in the woman's house for several months after his murder and was only buried the following summer.

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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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