Horrific news from the Berlin district of Marzahn: the police are apparently investigating a possible homicide after a serious incident was reported in the early afternoon. According to reports, a mother and her two daughters were killed and the suspected perpetrator is said to be on the run.
The first homicide squad has taken over the investigation. The investigation is currently ongoing. ‘Details about the people involved are not yet available,’ a spokesperson for the Berlin police told the newspaper KURIER. No further information can be provided at present as this could jeopardise the further investigation.
According to the newspaper B.Z., the victims are said to be a mother and her two daughters. The woman’s partner is said to be on the run. According to the newspaper, the crime scene is said to be in Ludwig-Renn-Straße. Police officers found the bodies of the mother and the girls there in the afternoon. According to B.Z., neighbours had previously noticed an unpleasant smell coming from the dead woman’s flat and called the police.
Pictures are circulating on social media showing the prefabricated building in Ludwig-Renn-Straße where the crime scene is said to be located. The images show, among other things, police vehicles and barriers in front of the building; police officers and forensic experts are on site.
According to the newspaper Bild, the 31-year-old mother lived with her two daughters, aged five and six, in a four-room flat on the first floor of an apartment block. Details about the people involved and the background to the crime have not yet been officially confirmed by the police. According to the spokesperson for the Berlin public prosecutor’s office, there may be several victims in the Marzahn district – no further information on possible fatalities has been officially released.
It is unclear whether this is a family drama. However, neighbours told Bild that they had never heard any arguments. The family, who had immigrated from Egypt, had moved to the neighbourhood five years ago and the six-year-old child had only recently started school. The girls had always been ‘’sweet‘’, said a neighbour, who was shocked by the horrific crime. The mother had trained as a nursery school teacher and her partner, who is now on the run, was ‘a quiet guy’. Initial online reactions to the crime were also horrified. ‘Three murders in Marzahn, it’s really terrible, I’m from the neighbourhood, I hope the murderer is caught quickly,’ wrote one user on X (formerly Twitter).
Horror in Marzahn: Mutter und Töchter ermordet, Täter auf der Flucht!