The couple admitted the crime in court. Germans killed the mother and grandmother of a newborn baby, who would later be passed off as their daughter. Report is impressive.
“The shock is profound”, summarizes journalist Anna-Marleen Howe, from .
One German couple killed Ukrainian refugees to keep their baby (from the Ukrainians). And he admitted that, in a court session held this Tuesday.
The trial is taking place in Mannheim, where the German couple is accused of double murder and child abduction.
The two Ukrainian women, who had escaped from warwere the mother and grandmother of a newborn. The mother was 27 years old, the grandmother was 51 years old. The German couple is 43 years old (he) and 44 years old (she).
O plano of the couple: kill the two women, keep the baby and from then on announce to everyone that that baby was their daughter.
Context: The German woman, from the suspected couple, has had several miscarriages and tried several fertility treatments, which never worked. It is not known whether he received psychological support.
But The couple already has four childrenall boys – but I really want to have a daughtergirl.
Ukrainian refugees lived in a refugee camp in Wiesloch; It was from there that the new Ukrainian mother contacted the German couple, reveals .
Contact was made through a group on Telegram, which the couple intentionally created for Ukrainian refugees.
Officially, the group was to help translation. But, according to the German Public Prosecutor’s Office, the group was only created due to the couple’s feeling of failure, never having had a daughter.
Crime and regret
When the youngest Ukrainian’s daughter he was born, in February 2024, the couple killed the new mother. And the baby’s grandmother too.
They all went to a restaurant and, discreetly, gave them tranquilizers in exaggerated doses. When the grandmother fell ill, the couple pretended to want to take her to the hospital – but took her to a lago, where was it murdered by the man, with multiple attacks on the head and then thrown into the lake. Then they told the youngest Ukrainian woman that her mother had had a heart attack, took her not to a hospital but to a dam, and then they killed her with the same way of working; They even set fire to the body and that was when took the baby home.
Now in court, despite not having attended the session, they issued a statement. “I regret everything I did”says the German, who adds: “We really wanted to have a daughter together, that was my wife’s most fervent wish.”
The wife adds: “I made a big mistake”.
