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Mother jailed for life for baby death

A mother who left her baby to starve to death while she partied and took ecstasy was given a life prison sentence by a court in western Germany on Wednesday.

Mother jailed for life for baby death
Bianca N. in court in May. Photo: DPA

The 22-year-old mother, named only as Bianca N., took drugs and partied for days in Münster over Halloween last year, while her four-month old daughter, Fee, was left alone in her apartment in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Bianca N. initially denied the murder charge against her, arguing she had not intended to kill her child. “I put her down and then forgot about her,” she told the court in May.

At the Münster nightclub she admitted spending €300 on ecstasy and amphetamines and only remembered her daughter three days later.

When she returned to the apartment in Soest it was too late.

She fled the next day to Münster and did not return for two weeks. In the meantime the baby’s corpse was discovered by social services.

“Fee died an agonizing death,” the judge said at the sentencing on Wednesday at Arnsberg Regional Court. “But Bianca seems indifferent to Fee’s fate.”

Before being jailed, the mother said: “It doesn’t matter to be what punishment I get. I’m sentenced for the rest of my life.”

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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.

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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