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Headless Lübeck corpse turns out to be discarded sex doll

Police were called out on Wednesday to the scene of what seemed to be a grisly murder. But they were soon able to put the finder’s mind to rest.

Published: 12 May 2016 16:08 CEST
Headless Lübeck corpse turns out to be discarded sex doll
Are sex dolls becoming too realistic? File Photo: Creative Commons

It must have been quite the shock.

A street cleaner in the picturesque town of Lübeck near Germany's Baltic coast called police early on Wednesday morning to tell them he had found a female corpse lying on the street next to a paper recycling container.

The lifeless body was wrapped in a blanket with a foot jutting out of one end.

Officers from Lübeck’s 2nd police district jumped into action, rushing to the scene as fast as they could.

But if they were fearing that the pristine streets of the UNESCO world heritage site were finally offering up some real detective work, they were soon to be put at their ease.

“After more exact criminal observation, it was ascertained that we were dealing with a so-called sex toy which had no head,” the police report reveals.

Police also happily informed the public that responsibility for getting rid of the decapitated dame rests once again with the street cleaner – a fact the poor 31-year-old who reported the find was no doubt delighted to hear.

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CRIME

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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