For more than a week, the search for her was made with great effort, now it is sad certainty. 14-year-old Ayleen from Gottenheim im Breisgau is dead. This was the result of the autopsy of a body found in Hesse, according to the Freiburg police headquarters in a statement.
According to matching information from "Badischer Zeitung" and "Schwarzwälder Bote", the girl fell victim to a violent crime. The police are silent for the time being: "We ask for your understanding that no further details on the investigation can be published at this time," said the Freiburg Bureau.
The investigators announced a press conference for Monday, in which there should be more information about the case. The police also said nothing about a report by the "Schwarzwalder Bote", according to which there is already a suspect, a previously convicted sex offender.
The body was found on Friday in Teufelssee, a former lignite opencast mine, about 30 kilometers north of Frankfurt am Main. The site is almost 300 kilometers from the home of the killed girl near Freiburg.
That's where Ayleen disappeared on the evening of July 21st. According to the police, she left her parents' house in the community of 2,800 around 6 p.m. to bring a piece of clothing to a friend in the same place. On the way there, their trail was lost. Witnesses wanted to have seen her afterwards, but ultimately the clues did not provide any clues as to the whereabouts of the girl. Search operations involving hundreds of police officers and volunteers, dogs and a helicopter were also unsuccessful. The search for the young people moved people in the region and beyond.
For the police, it's now about finding out what exactly happened to Ayleen in the past few days. who killed her How did she get to Hesse? The first answers to this may already be available on Monday at the press conference.
Gottenheim's mayor Christian Riesterer told the "Badische Zeitung" after the news of Ayleen's death: "We are all in shock." Mourners laid flowers and candles in front of his town hall.
Sources: Freiburg police headquarters, "Badische Zeitung", "Schwarzwälder Bote", news agencies DPA and AFP
