The comprehensive school Wenden is located on the edge of the small community in the south of the Sauerland. Here, very close to the school grounds, a student was violently killed last week. The population of the community is shocked and deeply struck.
On Sunday, many citizens came to school. They laid flowers at a makeshift memorial site on the school grounds, put out candles and paused. "Why?" was read on a candle, "We'll miss you" on another. On a fence hung a photo of the killed. "You are no longer here, your place is empty, but you have a firm place in our hearts," stood on a slate. Plush animals and angelic figures were also laid down.
The body of the 16-year-old was discovered in a forest near the school last Wednesday. A 14-year-old acquaintance of the boy has since confessed to having strangled him in a dispute the day before. In an interrogation, he stated that he had wanted a relationship with the victim. However, the 16-year-old has not reciprocated. The 14-year-old is now in custody.
A prayer and memorial room has been set up at the school
"The community is shocked, there is no other topic at the moment," said Mayor Bernd Clemens on Sunday the news agency dpa. In the service one had prayed for the victim. "Many questions are now in the room," because no one can explain such an act. "In school, the lessons should start on Monday at the usual time Psychologists were available for talks School is a room to be set up as a prayer and memorial room.
On Tuesday, the 16-year-old is to be buried. Mayor Clemens assumes that several hundred people will attend the memorial service. Until the funeral there are prayers for him every evening in the church of the village where the boy lived.
The prosecutor wants to let the only 14-year-old suspects undergo psychiatric examination. An expert should clarify the responsibility and responsibility of the adolescent, said the Siegener prosecutor Rainer Hoppmann.
Meanwhile, the coach of the football Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim, Julian Nagelsmann, in a video message published on Facebook to the survivors of the killed 16-year-old, who was a football player at the local club SV Rothemühle.
In it he expresses his sympathy to the parents and relatives of the boy and the teammates of the football club. Full of sadness and deep dismay he read about the boy's death, says Nagelsmann. "When I found out he was a passionate footballer, I felt a need to say a few words to you, because I too can sympathize with what it means to lose a loved one at a very early age. "
Turning to the boy's team, he said, "The violence, the hatred, the incomprehension," that had torn the fellow player out of life, "may not be your companion."