After the discovery of five dead in a house in Brandenburg, further details have now become known from the farewell letter from the suspect father.

Accordingly, the 40-year-old man is said to have forged a vaccination certificate for his wife.

The employer of the business administration graduate found out about it.

According to information from Chief Public Prosecutor Gernot Bantleon from the Cottbus Public Prosecutor's Office, the couple feared arrest and child abduction.

Johanna Christner

Editor in the section “Germany and the World”.

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The letter was seized by the investigators in the family home in Königs Wusterhausen, Brandenburg, and a firearm was found.

It is still unclear whether this is the murder weapon.

According to the investigators, the father is known to have been responsible for killing his 40-year-old wife and three children at the age of four, eight and ten years.

They were all found with gunshot wounds.

At first it was said that those killed had gunshot and stab wounds, but this has since been revised.

Following the act, the vocational school teacher is said to have committed suicide.

The autopsy of the five dead will take a few days.

The public prosecutor's office has so far left a request from the FAZ unanswered.

The news sparked discussions among vaccine opponents

The news about the woman's fake vaccination certificate sparked discussions among anti-vaccination campaigners on social media. The state drove desperate people to their deaths and it is a matter of "Corona victims", it says there, and there are also several historical statements relating to National Socialism to be found. In recent months, a chain letter has been circulating on Facebook and the Whatsapp news service in particular, which was supposed to give the appearance of a highly official document. The title: "Discussion paper on measures against legal guardians who take a negative attitude towards the Covid-19 vaccination of their wards". Different fonts and grammatical errors indicated the forgery,however, it had the letterhead and the address of the Federal Ministry of Health in Berlin. In addition, the note in red “For internal use only” should suggest an alleged leak.

The forged document stated, for example, that the state intended to "take appropriate measures to increase willingness to vaccinate or, if necessary, to enforce vaccination". There was also talk of personal threats, fines, imprisonment - and, as a last resort, “taking the child or young person into care by the youth welfare office with subsequent vaccination”. The chain letter was often accompanied by the message that the document had been leaked. The Federal Ministry of Health confirmed in the summer that it was a fake. From a legal point of view, such cases are document forgery, but follow-up is difficult.

Fake vaccination cards are often offered on internet platforms and messenger services.

To ensure the anonymity of the seller, payments are often made via Bitcoin or gift cards.

One of the fake certificates costs several hundred euros.

In the forums, however, users also report that they did not receive these after payment.