Cologne - The College of the Erich Kästner Gymnasium in Niehl mourns its longtime director.
Edith M. († 68) was murdered and dismembered in France. A farmer has been the terrible deed.
The Erich Kästner Gymnasium has organized a memorial service for next Thursday. "We are deeply saddened and shocked," said head teacher Dieter Sagittarius Sladek for EXPRESS. "She has heart and soul into school's principal, to be lovingly cared for her students," says Deputy Director Birgit Deumeland.
Edith M. was a teacher of French and philosophy. In 2003, she left the school, walked up with her husband Rolf to France. In the small village in the region Faux Dordogne (southwestern France) it was integrated. M. organized a German food in the village - where she met her killer: Farmer Yves Bureau (56), was also active as a local politician.
According to initial investigations by the Police Bureau, the teacher deliberately run over on a dirt road and then taken to his farm. There he is said to have drowned in a pond Edith M.. Then he sawed up the corpse and put a plastic bag.
The motive remains unclear. "We can not rule out a sexually motivated background," said the prosecutor in Périgueux. The autopsy in the Forensic Medicine in Bordeaux will show whether the farmer has gone into his barn to Edith M..
Two days after the police had searched the corpse of the former headmistress. On the edge of a corn field, they found the bloody hat of the boarder. "From that moment it was clear that we must start with a violent crime," said an investigator.
The fields were searched with helicopters, sealed off the roads to the village. Every driver has been inspected, questioned witnesses. Passers vans Renault Rapide was struck by the farmer on Tattag.
In the examination of witnesses had been involved in contradictions, Yves Bureau, spoken by a car accident. Ultimately, he led investigators to the dead. The corpse is still in forensic medicine.
The murder occurred when M. 's husband, Rolf was waiting in a restaurant on his wife. He is totally in shock after the fact, is hardly accessible. The corpse of Edith M. is to be transferred to Germany. They will find their final resting well in Cologne.
