A 14-year-old girl from Baden-Württemberg died in the Ulm University Hospital as a result of a knife attack.
According to the police, the alleged perpetrator is a 27-year-old asylum seeker.
The 14-year-old student was at around 7.20 a.m. with a 13-year-old classmate in Oberkirchberg (Alb-Donau-Kreis) on the way from her parents' house to the school bus stop.
Rudiger Soldt
Political correspondent in Baden-Württemberg.
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Both students were suddenly attacked in the residential street.
The perpetrator seriously injured both girls, they couldn't catch the school bus to Wiblingen.
Local residents alerted the police at 7:30 a.m. and reported two seriously injured schoolgirls on the street.
After a special task force (SEK) was deployed, the police officers managed to take a suspected perpetrator into custody in a nearby refugee hostel.
The police took a total of three men into temporary custody for questioning.
Initially, no details were known about the possible attacker.
The police and prosecutors have now announced that the suspect is a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea.
He was injured and under police guard in a clinic.
According to the information, officers had found a knife on him that could be the murder weapon.
The attacker is said to have come from a neighboring accommodation for asylum seekers and fled there again after the crime.
When the police searched it with special forces, they found three residents.
While the injured 27-year-old was taken to the hospital, the officers took the other two men to the office.
In the statement, the police asked "not to have any general suspicion against strangers, those seeking protection or asylum seekers or to encourage or support such suspicions".
There are said to be two apartments in the refugee accommodation in Oberkirchberg, a district of Illerkirchberg 15 kilometers south of Ulm: one is currently occupied by a family of seven, and a second by four men.
For tactical reasons, the police initially gave no information on the identity of the victim and the origin of the alleged perpetrator.
It also needs to be clarified whether the perpetrator and the victim knew each other or met by chance on the way to school.
Markus Häußler, the mayor of Illerkirchberg, spoke of a terrible act, he drove to the scene of the crime immediately when he found out about the police operation.
Three years ago there had already been a crime in a refugee accommodation in Illerkirchberg: On Halloween, four men had lured a 14-year-old schoolgirl into the refugee accommodation there under a pretext, drugged her and then raped her several times.
The perpetrators were asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria.
In March 2021, the Ulm Regional Court then sentenced the perpetrators to relatively short prison terms for serious rape because the crime process could only be reconstructed insufficiently.