Horror act in Germany
17-year-old stabs his teacher – dead
She bled to death miserably. In the small West German town of Ibbenbüren, a 17-year-old murdered his teacher in cold blood. He stabbed the 55-year-old with a knife.
An ambulance is in Ibbenbüren. A 17-year-old student killed his teacher here.
After the killing of a teacher, an arrest warrant was issued against the suspected 17-year-old student in Germany. A judge sent him into custody on suspicion of manslaughter, police and prosecutors said on Thursday.
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The autopsy of the body showed that the 55-year-old teacher suffered numerous stab wounds and bled to death as a result. The investigations into the background of the crime in Ibbenbüren north of Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia) are said to be ongoing. The 17-year-old suspect has not yet commented on what happened.
The perpetrator dialed 911 himself
As the investigation had shown, the student had been expelled from school for one day because of conflicts with his teachers a few hours before the bloody crime.
Nevertheless, on Tuesday afternoon he is said to have attacked and killed his class teacher, who was alone in the classroom at the time. He then dialed the emergency number himself and was arrested without resistance. The professional colleagues in the district of Steinfurt held a minute’s silence on Thursday at 11 a.m. (SDA)