An employee of a flower shop was killed at her workplace in Lichtenfels, Upper Franconia. Two days after the crime, the perpetrator was still at large on Sunday, according to a police spokeswoman.
Police and prosecutors said that walkers discovered the dead 50-year-old on Friday evening. The perpetrator or perpetrators are unknown. Initially, neither a robbery nor a crime in a relationship was ruled out. Investigators also gave no information on the cause of death. The autopsy of the body was still pending at the weekend.
“The police are looking for the perpetrator or perpetrators at high pressure and have set up the 30-strong special commission ‘Flower’ for this purpose,” said the investigators. It is hoped for helpful witness information. By Sunday, a number of tips had already been received.
Passers-by discovered in downtown Lichtenfels that around 9 p.m. on Friday, about three hours after the shop closed, everything outside the shop was still set up and the front door was unlocked. So they looked and found the victim on the ground. Police found that the woman had been killed.
An immediate search with a large number of forces was initially unsuccessful. The surrounding area was also searched on Saturday. The train station in Lichtenfels was temporarily closed due to search measures. Trains had to wait because of this, and there were delays.
“Such an act stuns me,” said Lichtenfels district administrator Christian Meißner (CSU) on Sunday. “It has been many decades since there was such a crime in Lichtenfels.” It hit the people in the district town and in the district to the core.
The investigators are initially looking for two women as witnesses who entered the store shortly before 6 p.m. on Friday. These witnesses also came forward at the weekend. In addition, another man is said to have stayed in the area of the shop. The search for this witness continued on Sunday.
