After three women were freed from a house in northern Baden-Württemberg, the police are investigating possible other victims. They assumed that there were other people in the property of the alleged hostage-takers at times, said a spokesman for the Mosbach public prosecutor on Monday.
With these people, it is now a matter of clarifying to what extent they may also have been victims of crimes in Walldürn. The spokesman did not provide any further information about the number of people.
The public prosecutor suspects a 37-year-old of having held and raped a woman for several days. The 26-year-old finally called an acquaintance who alerted the police. When police officers searched the house in Walldürn on October 19, they reportedly found two other women. The investigation would have to show how long they had been there, the spokesman said.
The investigators accuse the 37-year-old German of taking hostages in combination with particularly serious rape and dangerous bodily harm. He went to a psychiatric hospital. His 23-year-old brother is considered a helper and is in custody.