In Saarbrücken, the police are investigating a mother who is said to have thrown her two children off a balcony. A three-year-old girl died from her injuries, a spokesman for the Saarland state police said on Friday. A one-year-old girl is largely unharmed in a clinic.
The crime happened on Thursday evening. According to previous investigations, the 38-year-old woman is said to have thrown her two children from the balcony from a height of about five meters.
Then she fell down herself. She was seriously injured and was unresponsive. The three-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries on Friday night. The police are now investigating the mother for murder and attempted murder. According to the police, the children were too small to get over the railing on their own.
The background was initially unclear. Police saw evidence that the woman could be suffering from a mental illness. The mother was with the daughters and her partner, the father, in Saarbrücken to visit her parents. “The family lives in the Main-Taunus district in Hesse,” said the spokesman. He did not give any precise location information.