A crime that is hard to conceive what has shocked the quiet town of Freudenberg , on the border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. Days after the atrocious murder of little Luise , a 12-year-old girl found dead in a wood, two girls of the same age, aged 12 and 13, confessed.
The German authorities are keeping the matter in complete confidentiality , as required by the strict regulations on the privacy of minors.
It is known that last Saturday afternoon, the little girl was returning home after visiting a friend. Then she disappeared. The body was found on Sunday, across the regional border with Rhineland-Palatinate, in a forest next to a bicycle path in the opposite direction to the road he would have had to take to return to his parents .
Immediately excluding the sexual crime trail, the investigators established that someone had stabbed her to death, with a weapon found a short distance away. An object belonging to another little girl was found at the scene of the crime and attention immediately focused on two very young suspects. Which days later, after being questioned and contradicting the testimonies of other inhabitants of the area, they confessed.
The question now is: why? An answer, perhaps, there is, and it is just as terrible: a revenge linked to a tease. A trivial discussion between little girls, which ended like in a horror film.
"What may be a motive for children may not be understandable for adults," said Koblenz prosecutor Mario Mannweiler. "What has happened pulls the ground out from under your feet," commented the Minister President of the Land, Hendrik Wuest. Even more emblematic are the words of Juergen Sues, vice president of the local police station: "After more than 40 years of service, this case leaves me speechless".
The judiciary will not be able to proceed against the two girls , who are now allegedly in a protected structure of the Juvenile Office. This does not mean, however, "that now nothing will be done," the prosecutor stressed. "We are putting the case in the hands of the authorities for minors," added the magistrate, explaining that psychologists, psychiatrists and experts have also been mobilized.
