In the scandal about the disappearance of the police evidence in Lügde abuse case, there have been first personnel consequences: The district administrator of the district of Lippe, Axel Lehmann, suspended the head of the Directorate Criminality in the Authority. This had informed him too late about the disappearance. "That's not the way it is," criticized Lehmann.
The district administrator apologized before journalists to the victims of the abuse case for the obvious investigative breakdowns in the police. "The fact that serious mistakes have been made, it is undisputed," said the SPD politician with a view of the 155 disappeared disk. What mistakes have been made, now "completely enlightened". Lehmann spoke in this context of a "blatant dysfunction" in the police lip, which makes him stunned.
The disappearance of the 155 CDs and DVDs at the district police Lippe had become known on Thursday. The prosecutor Detmold said, to date, the authority "assume that the evidence is due to careless handling are not found and not stolen". Of course, but also the possibility of theft is not excluded. "So far, however, there have not been sufficient evidence for this."
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The non-searchable media had seized investigators in the case of the years of child abuse series at the camp Eichwald in Lügde-Elbrinxen at the 56-year-old main suspect. Lügde's abuse series became known on January 30th.
According to a recent investigation, at least 31 children were abused on the campsite over a period of more than ten years. Most were between 4 and 13 years old at the time of the crime. In addition to the 56-year-old, two other suspects are in custody.
The chairman of the Federation of German detectives in North Rhine-Westphalia, Sebastian Fiedler, accused Landes-Minister of the Interior Herbert Reul (CDU) in the case Lügde, despite repeated warning against personal emergency with the police to have undertaken. "I myself often pointed out to the Minister," Fiedler told the Westdeutsche Zeitung. "And there were open letters, you get warm words, but nothing happens."
The Union of Police (GdP) demanded a full investigation of the case without prejudice. "The fact that the first indications of the mass sexual abuse of children on a campsite in Lüdge was not immediately pursued and that evidence has been lost, has shaken the public's faith in the police sustainable," said the NRW chairman of the GdP, Michael Mertens , on.
Lügde's abuse scandal was also the subject of a plenary session of the Dusseldorf Landtag on Friday. At the request of the opposition factions of the SPD and the Greens, the interior committee of the state parliament will deal on Tuesday with the disappearance of CDs and DVDs. The AfD opposition called for the establishment of a parliamentary committee of inquiry.