Father kills eight-year-old in Bollschweil – Life sentence from Freiburg Regional Court
Freiburg Regional Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of his eight-year-old daughter. The court panel also established the particular severity of culpability.
Freiburg Regional Court sentences father for daughter's murder
Google News DE — Crime (de) reports: Freiburg Regional Court has sentenced the father of an eight-year-old girl from Bollschweil in Baden-Württemberg to life imprisonment for murder. As a court spokesman announced on Monday evening, the responsible panel also established the particular severity of culpability. The court thus followed the motions of the public prosecutor and the co-prosecution.
The convicted man drove to the house of his divorced wife in Bollschweil in October 2025 to collect their shared children for a weekend. Instead of honouring the arrangement, he forced his way into the house against his ex-wife's wishes and brought the daughter under his control. The mother and son were locked out.
Alerted police officers saw through a window that the man was using massive force against the girl. One officer fired at him and hit him in the lower abdomen. Nevertheless, the man managed to withdraw further into the interior of the house with the daughter. When police entered the house, the child was already dead.
In the course of the investigation, there was initially consideration of the perpetrator's possible lack of criminal responsibility. A new assessment, however, led to a conviction with full criminal responsibility.
Source: Google News DE — Crime (de)