Two schoolgirls admit to fatally stabbing12-year-old girl in woods

The murder that stunned Germany: Girls aged 12 and 13 admit luring 12-year-old classmate into woods and then knifing her more than 30 times ‘because they fell out’ – and they are TOO YOUNG to prosecute

  • The victim, known only as Luise, went missing on Saturday afternoon
  • Her body was found the next day in a wooded area near the town of Freudenberg

Two schoolgirls aged 12 and 13 have confessed to stabbing a 12-year-old girl to death in Germany, police said on Tuesday, in a case that has shocked the country.

The victim, known only as Luise, went missing on Saturday afternoon after leaving a friend’s house near the town of Freudenberg, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Luise’s body was found the following day in a wooded area not far from her home after a massive police search.

Police said the girl was stabbed more than 30 times with a small knife. 

‘The child died as a result of numerous knife wounds and the resulting loss of blood,’ Koblenz prosecutor Mario Mannweiler told a press conference, adding that there was ‘no indication of a sexual offence’.

Pictured: Police forces stand at a cordon near Freudenberg, Germany, on March 12, 2023

Pictured: German police officers search for a knife in a woodland where a 12-year-old girl was found dead as a result of knife wounds in Hohenhain, near Freudenberg, Germany, on March 14, 2023

The victim, known only as Luise, went missing on Saturday afternoon after leaving a friend’s house near the town of Freudenberg, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Local residents laid down flowers and placed candles near the wooded area where the body was located

The two girls ‘made statements about the matter and in the end admitted the crime’, said Florian Locker, head of Koblenz police’s homicide department.

The girls and Luise knew each other, Mannweiler said. 

He declined to give further details because the suspects are too young to be held criminally responsible for their actions in Germany, where the age of criminal responsibility starts at 14. 

Investigators have yet to locate the knife or knives used in the crime.

Luise’s parents reported her missing on Saturday after she failed to return from visiting the 13-year-old suspect at her home 3 km away, according to The Times. 

The 12-year-old suspect joined the two of them and the girls were spotted by neighbours walking into the woods nearby.

The 13-year-old had forced the younger suspect to assist her, according to reports. 

Police said that under questioning, the two girls started to make contradictory statements and both confessed on Monday. 

The regional leader of North Rhine-Westphalia state, Hendrik Wuest, said: ‘It’s unimaginable and almost unbearable that children could be capable of such acts’

Pictured: A German police officer uses a metal detector in search of a knife at the woodland where a 12-year-old girl was found dead as a result of knife wounds in Hohenhain, near Freudenberg, on March 14 

According to media reports, Luise had been friends with her killers but had fallen out with them. 

The two girls attended the same school as Luise, according to reports, and the older girl is said to have been in the same class. 

The parents of the suspects have moved away for the moment but are still in contact with their daughters. 

Luise’s disappearance triggered a frantic search operation that featured a helicopter, sniffer dogs and drones. 

Local residents laid down flowers and placed candles near the wooded area where the body was found.

Hendrik Wuest, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, said that the state is ‘grieving’. 

He added: ‘It is incomprehensible and unbearable that children are capable of such horrible acts.’

He promised that the authorities would do all that is possible to uncover the motive and circumstances behind the crime. 

‘After more than 40 years in the job you still get cases that leave you speechless,’ said Jürgen Süs, the deputy president of the Koblenz police directorate. 

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