Almost five weeks ago, the 15-year-old Rebecca from Berlin is gone. The investigators assume that she was killed. Rebecca’s brother-in-law was considered the main suspect. The girl had stayed with him and her sister before they should be gone. Now the arrest warrant against the brother-in-law has been repealed, because no new evidence was found. However, it is determined against him. the
In the case of the missing Rebecca, the arrest warrant against her brother-in-law has been repealed. There is due to the current investigation prior doubts about the probable cause, the Prosecutor’s office in Berlin. The warrant was therefore lifted on Friday by an investigating judge. Advance a so-called detention was passed on the complaint of the attorney-at-law of the brother-in-law against the detention.
said a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s office, has not changed the evidence against the brother-in-law in the past few weeks. Despite intensive police investigation, no new evidence or evidence against the man had been found.
Rebecca was more than a month ago, on 18. February, disappeared. The 15-year-old girl from Berlin-Neukölln had stayed with her older sister and their family in the district of Britz and was not appeared in the Morning in the school. The homicide is believed that she was killed.
brother-in-law for the second Time released
Ten days after her Disappearance, the police had arrested the 27-year-old brother-in-law of Rebecca, for the first time as a Suspect, a day but later released. An investigating judge found no probable cause. The prosecution lodged an appeal against the release. Another judge subsequently issued on 4. March a detention ordered on the grounds of manslaughter. The brother-in-law was re-arrested and in prison.
The most important clue to the police to speak for a participation of the brother-in-law, trips are notes on the car: The car had to question time only the brother-in-law has access, is said to have been photographed after the Disappearance of Rebecca, and on the evening of the following day, on the A 12, between Berlin and Frankfurt (Or) of cameras of a license plate recognition system, according to investigators. In the ZDF-show “aktenzeichen XY”, in which the police asked for information from the public, voice the main Commissioner Michael Hoffmann of the “strange and clarification needy trips with the car”.
More than 1000 notes were received in the following days to the police, there are several great search actions followed. With a hundred and dogs scoured investigators to a wooded area near the town of Kummersdorf, South-East of Berlin. In the village of Rieplos close to the highway engineers were looking for Crime, with the support of the Technical Agency, and compared the tire tracks. Then was hit on the highway between Berlin and the border to Poland. 18. and 19. March was the murder Commission the Wolziger the lake to the South of the highway. Dog handlers from North Rhine-Westphalia, drove with corpse dogs on a boat on the lake. A day later, a sonar and divers were used. On Thursday, officials sought again the highway 12 between Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) as well as on country roads to tracks. Without Success.
Rebecca’s family said in Interviews, always the innocence of the brother-in-law. He’s got all of the clues and also the trips to Brandenburg explained, said the father and the mother. For the investigators, the 27-Year-old, despite his release, more under suspicion. “He is still a defendant in the proceedings,” says a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s office.
