Image: CHRISTOF STACHE (AFP)
A five-year-old girl from Berlin who has been missing since Tuesday afternoon is dead. A police spokesman said she was found injured by passers-by in the Pankow public park in the evening. Paramedics tried to revive the child. However, it died in the hospital.
Police believe the girl was the victim of a crime. “It had injuries where you have to assume that it was a homicide,” said the police spokesman. “A suspect has already been arrested in this connection.” It was a German-Turkish 19-year-old.
According to the police spokesman, the young man has a connection to the girl – but what exactly the connection looks like is initially not known. The five-year-old had German-Polish-Turkish nationality, the spokesman reported when asked.
According to the police, the girl was said to have been seen in Paule Park behind the Rathaus-Center before she disappeared. From there it is only a few hundred meters to the later site. However, what exactly happened remains unclear at first. The investigations by the homicide commission were ongoing, said the police spokesman.
“In the afternoon a police officer was in the store and asked if we had seen a man with a little girl,” said an employee of a restaurant on the corner of the park. Then word got around quickly about what had happened. “They closed everything here. A helicopter also flew over here.” As the RBB reported, the police were looking for the girl at times with almost 100 emergency services and a helicopter.
Source: Nachrichten
