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Man ‘kills girl, 14, he met online in forest’

Police have launched a murder investigation after a 14-year-old girl was found stabbed to death in woods outside Berlin. The prime suspect is her older boyfriend who she met in an online chatroom.

Published: 20 November 2013 11:08 CET
Man 'kills girl, 14, he met online in forest'

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Named by Bild newspaper as Alyssa B., a passer-by found the teenager in a forest on the south-east edge of Berlin at around 3pm on Monday afternoon with a large knife stuck into her stomach.

Her suspected killer was found sitting on a nearby train track and was arrested.

Police said they had little doubt that she was stabbed by 20-year-old Maurice M., from Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia. The pair had apparently met on a German internet chat room, Jappy, in May.

Last weekend he made the 600-kilometre journey to see her in Eichwalde, Brandenburg, despite her parents' disapproval, the Tagesspiegel newspaper said on Wednesday.

He apparently developed very strong feelings for Alyssa B., through regular chatting online, classmates of the murdered girl told the Tagesspiegel. “He wanted to marry her,” said one pupil. Another said he had threatened to kill her if she refused.

It is thought, Bild said, that she was trying to break things off with him and when the pair met in person they had a huge fight, said eyewitnesses. “They were really yelling at each other,” a pensioner who was near the attack site told the Tagesspiegel.

A friend of Aylssa B., Willy H., went with the pair into the woods to look out for his classmate. Maurice M. is thought to have hit him over the head with a beer bottle, investigators said. The 15-year-old boy is in hospital.

Maurice M. fled the scene. Officers arrested him at a nearby train station where he was sat on the lines. He had a suicide note in his pocket, the Cottbus state prosecutor said on Tuesday.

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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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