12-year-old Luise F. from Freudenberger was killed

Freudenberg. Update 10:40 a.m.: The police headquarters in Koblenz announced on Monday morning that Luise F. was the victim of a crime. “The investigations carried out so far confirm the suspicion that the girl was the victim of a homicide. There is currently no evidence of a sexual offense,” the police said. An autopsy is scheduled to take place today to determine the cause of death.

“The police and the Koblenz public prosecutor’s office coordinate all measures closely with the authorities responsible for the place of residence of the deceased,” it said. At the present time, no further information could be published on the other circumstances, both for investigative reasons and to protect the personal rights of the relatives.

Update 8:45 a.m.: Freudenberg mourns Luise. In the city, the flags are hanging at half-staff, in the school of the dead 12-year-old, the classmates are being helped with professional help – including by crisis intervention teams – in the processing.

There is currently no new information from the police. However, that can change in the course of the morning, as the investigating police headquarters in Koblenz reported to the Siegener Zeitung. We’ll keep you posted. A spokeswoman for the dpa said that the girl is expected to be autopsied on Monday.

Sad certainty: Missing girl from Freudenberg is dead

Update 8:28 p.m.: Now it’s official: the police confirmed on Sunday evening in a press release that the body found around noon was the missing 12-year-old Luise F. from Freudenberg. “We can confirm that a female body was found this morning near the former Wildenburg train station in the area of ​​responsibility of the Betzdorf police station, directly on the border with North Rhine-Westphalia. We can also confirm that the body found is the wanted girl from Freudenberg.

For reasons of investigation tactics, no information can yet be given about the cause of death. “The Koblenz Criminal Investigation Department immediately began investigating and set up an investigative team,” the police continued.

The police are making an urgent request to the public: “In order to protect the privacy of the relatives, we ask the public not to participate in speculation about the further circumstances.”

After a corpse was found in Freudenberg: Churches invite you to worship

7:30 p.m. update: Freudenberg is in shock. The evangelical church calls for a “devotion for Luise”. The evangelical church will be open for this from 7 p.m., according to the spontaneous announcement by the parish. “We want to pray for Luise and her family.”

Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes skirmishes continue. The two public prosecutor’s offices in Koblenz and Siegen are still deliberating on who has sovereignty over communication in the “Luise F.” case. The location of the body in the border area between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate apparently makes the situation unclear. Basically, the crime scene principle applies in such a case – and according to information from the Siegener Zeitung, this is due to the location of the body in Rhineland-Palatinate. There are therefore no official statements about the case at the moment. The fact that the body found is the missing 12-year-old is considered certain. All searches have now been terminated.

Missing girl from Freudenberg: the city is in shock

Update 6:20 p.m.: Even if the official confirmation from the police or the public prosecutor’s office is still pending – there are many indications that the body found is the missing Luise F. Freudenberger Mayor Nicole Reschke to the Siegener Zeitung: “We are all in shock, the whole city. Our sympathy and our thoughts are with Luise’s family and friends. ”She was also deeply shocked.

According to Reschke, he is in contact with the girl’s school. It’s almost impossible to think about class on Monday morning. Instead, there will be professional talks with psychological support for Luise’s classmates. A crisis intervention team is also to be deployed.

Forensics officers have started work at the site where the body was found.

Freudenberg: Circumstances after the body was found are still completely unclear

4:40 p.m. update: There are increasing signs that the body found is 12-year-old Luise F. The police have now deleted their public call to search for the girl. The emergency services had already cleared the collection point set up in the Büschergrund school center in the early afternoon.

According to the police, there was no evidence that the 12-year-old had committed suicide. However, there is still a possible accident in the room.

3:30 p.m. update: According to the Siegen-Wittgenstein police, it is about which criminal police is responsible for further processing of the case. Because the female body was found by emergency services from Siegen, but it was probably beyond the state border in Rhineland-Palatinate. “Then the police in Koblenz would take over,” police spokesman Niklas Zankowski told SZ on request. The colleagues from Koblenz are already on their way.

The location of the body certainly raises questions. It doesn’t fit the route that Luise F. would take from Kleintirolerstrasse in Hohenhain to her parents’ house on Tillmann-Siebel-Strasse in Freudenberg (around three kilometers on foot).

We’ll keep you posted.

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Missing girl in Freudenberg: police in large-scale operation

Here is our original coverage from Sunday morning

The police have been looking for 12-year-old Luise F. since Saturday evening or last night, and there has been no trace of her since late Saturday afternoon. The girl was last seen around 5:30 p.m. on Kleintirolstrasse in Hohenhain. There she visited a friend. According to the police, the girl wanted to walk home towards Tillmann-Siebel-Strasse in Freudenberg. Police released a photo of the missing girl on Sunday morning. Since the public search was canceled on Sunday, we removed the person’s description from the article.

When the 12-year-old left Kleintirolstrasse at around 5:30 p.m., she had a cell phone with her.

Large search operation for missing girl: emergency services from all over the region

During the night, a collection point for the forces deployed was set up at the “Alte Schanze” hiking car park at the entrance to Hohenhain. At daybreak, more and more helpers reached the assembly point. The previous search measures have so far (as of Sunday, 9 a.m.) been unsuccessful. The police, the DRK and the fire brigades from Freudenberg, Büschergrund, Plittershagen and Mausbach were involved in the search. In addition, mantrailer dogs were used. The police helicopter circled with its thermal imaging camera, two drones from DLRG and THW helped with the search.

The search area included the area between the Hohenhain hiking car park down the valley in the direction of Bethesda Hospital. Temperatures were below freezing overnight. Further search dogs were requested, which first met at the Freudenberg motorway police station and then successively moved out to the search areas assigned to them. Around 5 a.m., the DRK rescue dog squadron in Altenkirchen arrived in Hohenhain with three search dogs and started work. The DRK was in action early in the morning with almost 30 helpers.

According to the information available to the SZ, the cell phone of the missing person should be switched off. So far, the police have not been able to provide any information about the possible reasons for the disappearance of the 12-year-old.