Missing student : search Rebecca Reusch again unsuccessful

The second day in a row the homicide division of the Berlin police searched together with forces of the Federal Agency for Technical relief, a forest area near the village of Rieplos, 50 kilometers Southeast of Berlin in Brandenburg. The use was cancelled on Wednesday evening at nightfall. The missing Rebecca Reusch had not been found, said a police spokesman. Whether and where the search will be continued on Thursday, was not the first time.

six detectives and 14 forces of the THW Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf tried to find traces that lead to the missing Rebecca Reusch. The THW also had to return on Wednesday "special technique", said a police spokesman. Specifically, it was a ground radar device. Thus, irregularities in the soil explored.

on Tuesday, had technicians in white protective suits are there traces on the ground at the edge of the forest studied. In the process, they also held a figure, probably of tire tracks, for comparison, in the Hand. The search goes back to one of the currently more than 1300 references from the population, on the case of Rebecca.

On the website of the THW Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf, a Team had recently been in lower Saxony, in the search for the body of a missing woman in a forest involved. The so-called technical localization group not only with a technical and electronic devices for trapped people, but also missing persons. To do this, you have devices such as a "Bio Radar", an "electronic-acoustic positioning system" and "Video-thermography".

Rebecca's since 18. February

Rebecca was gone at 18. In February, more than three weeks ago, disappeared. At the request of the public Prosecutor, an investigating judge had issued earlier this week an arrest warrant against the brother-in-law of the girl. The 27-year-old Florian R. sitting since then due to the urgent Tatverdachts of manslaughter in custody. He is silent, according to information from the authorities to the allegations. Radio station RTL reported, the lawyer of the brother-in-law, a custody complaint. Prosecutors and police could not confirm this, however. The lawyer could not be reached for comment.

office of the public Prosecutor and the police to keep Florian R. because of contradictions in his information, and because of other circumstantial evidence – including the mobile phone data of 15-Year-olds – for a suspect. The homicide is believed that Rebecca on the Morning of the 18. February has not left the house of the brother-in-law and her older sister alive. The brother-in-law should have been possible at the time to be alone with Rebecca in the house.

A forensic technician ensures the traces on the ground in a wooded area in the case of the missing Rebecca Reusch.Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Central picture/dpa

At the same time, the hair and fibers to a also out of the house missing blanket in the trunk of the common cars of the brother-in-law and sister have been found. From impressions left by bodies and not by the offender preventable, was not yet of speech. The car is on the morning of the 18. February and the night of the following day on the A12 towards Frankfurt (Or) of a number plate recognition system of the Brandenburg police counted. Florian R. has used the car he shares with Rebecca's sister, according to police two days alone.

According to information provided by the parents of missing 15-Year-olds to "image" and "B. Z." Florian R. have you insured after the first arrest and release before the one and a half weeks, that he had nothing to do with the Disappearance of the girl and allegedly due to a drug-trafficking business in Poland was driven. For days, the father of Rebecca, had declared that he did not know why, Florian R. was on the A12 on the way, should not be allowed to talk about it. The reason: Florian R. fear, to be due to the drug-business prosecuted.

office of the public Prosecutor and the police are increasingly upset that Details of the investigation, and thus also a potential perpetrator to know the family in the Public discourse. The police considers the statement, Florian R. was due to a drug-trafficking business on the go, also for a protection statement of the brother-in-law.

More about

Missing Rebecca Reusch search in Brandenburg on Tuesday unsuccessfully

Alexander Fröhlich

finished, However, the police should be able to put this Version, a guilt to be proved. There is concern that there may be days long a false trail followed, and valuable time was wasted now – that would be disastrous for the police and the Prosecutor's office. Both are due to the end of 2018, were publicised breakdowns in the case of the 2006 disappearance of Georgine Krüger is under pressure.