The suspected of stabbing on Tuesday to the elected mayor of the German town of Herdecke, from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), is his own 17-year-old adopted daughterthe Police announced this Wednesday at a press conference in which They excluded that there could be a political motive behind the attack.
The head of the homicide squad, Jens Rautenberg, pointed out that Stalzer herselfonce she was able to testify after being stabilized in the hospital, He framed his daughter as a suspect.
A spokeswoman for the Hagen Police, Ursula Schönberg, stated that the elected mayor, Iris Stalzer, is now out of danger and with a favorable prognosis, after she was found injured with up to 13 stab wounds in his home on Tuesday and taken by helicopter to the hospital in critical condition.
The emergency services were alerted by a call from the politician’s 17-year-old daughter, who was provisionally detained along with her brother, 15, since from the first moment there were indications of a “domestic event of some kind”.
Both minors had police recordsSchönberg added.
In fact, This summer there was another case of domestic violence in the Stalzer home, when the 17-year-old daughter also attacked her adoptive mother with a knife, according to the weekly The mirror.
An official from the Hagen Prosecutor’s Office, Bernd Haldorn, confirmed that based on the current state of the investigation, a family dispute is the explanation for the event and that the daughter is responsible for the stabbing.
Although, according to Bild, the suspected murder weapon, a kitchen knife and another knife, were found in the 15-year-old son’s bedroom, all suspicions now point to the daughter.
Nevertheless, In principle it would be a crime of serious injuries and not one of attempted homicide, since there are no indications that the minor had the intention of ending her mother’s life.
Furthermore, Haldorn explained, everything indicates that The young woman interrupted her attack on Stalzer and called the emergency services so that they would attend to the 57-year-old policy.
Stalzer, 57, married and mother of two teenagers, is a labor lawyer who has worked for many years in local politics in Herdeckea German city of about 20,000 inhabitants.
The social democratic politician was due to take office in November after being elected a week ago.
Stalzer won the second round of the local elections on the 28th by winning 52.8% of the votes over the conservative candidate Fabian Haas.