A man is said to have killed his three children, his wife and himself. The police are investigating the death of the family in Brandenburg. Local residents commemorate the five dead.
Königs Wusterhausen – Several days after the violent death of a family in Königs Wusterhausen, residents, the church and the town thought of the dead.
“We are stunned by what has happened. We do not understand it and we do not understand it, “said the bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO), Christian Stäblein, on Thursday evening. Almost two dozen people had taken their places in the church in the Senzig district for prayer; others had lit candles.
Candles are still burning in front of the family’s house, around two and a half kilometers away. The bodies of the parents and their three children were found over the weekend. According to the current investigation, the father of the family is said to have first killed the children – they were four, eight and ten years old – and his wife and then himself with a gun.
Farewell letter found
The investigators also found a farewell letter from the 40-year-old. In it, the vocational school teacher announced that he was concerned about being arrested because he had had his wife’s vaccination certificate forged. He also feared that the children would be taken away from him. The woman’s employer, the Technical University of Wildau, had set a deadline for her to comment on her vaccination certificate, according to dpa information, after discrepancies were noticed. The deadline had not yet expired.
The investigators continue to investigate the background to the crime. The written results of the autopsy are still pending – they will only be available in a few weeks, said Chief Prosecutor Gernot Bantleon on Thursday. dpa
