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Verden / Paris (dpa / lni) - When the child murderer Martin N., known as the "mask man", was arrested exactly ten years ago, the investigators had to rely on the accused's cooperation when accessing Hamburg.
The then head of the special commission, Martin Erftenbeck, recalled in an interview with the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) that there was no arrest warrant for the action on April 13, 2011, because the investigating judge had not seen any series connection.
This has increased the pressure again.
“We had to get in personal contact with the accused so that he would work with us and also go to Verden for an interrogation.
And that first moment was the decisive one. "
At that time, Martin N. agreed to go to Verden, where he was also interrogated by the profiler Alexander Horn.
On the second day he confessed to three murders of boys.
At that time, a huge burden had fallen off the commission and himself, so Erftenbeck.
The person sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 was extradited from Germany to France on January 20, 2021, where the now 50-year-old is under investigation for the murder of a minor.
According to media reports, he is a suspect in the case of little Jonathan, who was kidnapped in 2004 from a school camp in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in western France.
The French police recently launched a call for witnesses and published photos of the suspect.
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In Germany, the "mask man" had abused little boys for years and murdered three of them at the age of 8, 9 and 13.
Between 1992 and 2001 he crept masked to the beds of his victims in northern Germany at night.
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NDR interview with Martin Erftenbeck