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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - After the act of violence with four dead in a dormitory for people with disabilities in Potsdam, the facility thought of the victims with prayer.
Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD), Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher (Greens), Potsdam's Lord Mayor Mike Schubert (SPD) and the regional bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, Christian Stäblein, were also there on Thursday.
They laid flowers in front of the dormitory, the Thusnelda-von-Saldern-Haus, and remained there in a minute's silence.
Then they went in silence to the area of the diaconal association Oberlinhaus for prayer in the Oberlinkirche in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Other attendees, including families, were allowed onto the compound by security personnel.
A 51-year-old care worker at the residence is suspected of killing the four residents and seriously injuring another resident on Wednesday.
According to the public prosecutor's office, the Potsdam district court admitted her to a psychiatric hospital on Thursday.
The woman has so far been silent about the act.
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