The tranquil village of Weitefeld in the Westerwald is in shock: in the early morning hours the police discovered three corpses in a family home. Two fatalities are male and one female, as a police spokesman said. There are many indications that the crime took place in the family environment. The investigators first searched for the alleged perpetrator on Sunday, including with a helicopter over an adjacent forest. When asked whether one of the male victims is a minor, the spokesman said: “We cannot rule it out.” According to the local mayor of Weitefeld, Karl-Heinz Kessler (independent), a woman, a man and a boy at a young age lived in the Tathaus. In the morning, the streets were cordoned off with red and white flutter tape and several trace-proofs of the police in white protective overalls. The officers were informed with an emergency call at around 3.45 a.m. on Sunday morning. According to their own statements, the police cannot rule out that a dying victim himself has dropped the call for help. A screaming woman called. When the officials arrived, a person, probably a man, fled from the crime scene, added the spokesman. According to unconfirmed information, firearms or stab weapons could have been used in the crime. The police were deployed with a large number of officials in the village of Weitefeld in the Altenkirchen district high in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, including a special operational command (SEK). In contrast to the act of violence, she determined in an apparent idyll: forsythia and fruit trees bloomed in the front gardens near the crime scene on a spring day with bright sunshine. With protective helmets and machine guns for the almost 2,300 inhabitants from Weitefeld, there is no concrete danger. Nevertheless, the police asked not to take hitchhikers in the region. The officials blocked Weitefeld, and patrol cars were posted at the entrances. Every car that wanted to drive in or out was checked. There were police officers with protective helmets and machine guns. A direct resident reported that he saw a helicopter flying over his street shortly after 6 a.m. Another resident said his son had to park his car outside and walk into the village. External content activate local mayor Kessler was deeply affected by the crime. “That takes you away. You know the people here in town. We could never have imagined such an act,” he told the German Press Agency. The police asked him in the early morning around 5:00 a.m. to open the local school for the SEK. “There has been something going on all the time since then,” said the 68-year-old. The place is completely sealed off. “The people from the village do not call the police, they call me and want to know what’s going on,” said Kessler. At first the streets were swept empty, the citizens of Weitefeld remained in their houses despite the bright sunshine. “It is terrible and terrible” the mayor of the community of Daaden-Herdorf, Helmut Stühn (non-party), said: “This is terrible. I can imagine that the terrible act has already led to a great concern.” 43 -year -old villager who was traveling with his dog in the morning. He also reported a helicopter in the early morning. In the village there is a kind of curfew. The village with two districts is considered the oldest municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, the place name was first mentioned in 848.
