Man kills his wife and three children for a counterfeit coronavirus health pass

A father of a family killed his wife and three children before committing suicide because he feared being imprisoned after having forged a health pass through coronavirus, indicated this Tuesday the justice of Germany.

Investigators found a farewell letter at the family’s home, said a spokesman for the Cottbus prosecutor’s office, in charge of the case.

The five lifeless bodies were found last Saturday in a town in the south of the capital Berlin, Königs Wusterhausen., and since then, the reason for the drama has not been known.

In his farewell letter,.

“But the woman’s employer found out and wanted to investigate”spokesman Gernot Bantleon told AFP.

“The father hoped that he and his wife would be arrested and that the children would be taken from them”, added.

Investigators assume the 40-year-old father killed his three sons, ages four, eight and 10, and his 40-year-old wife before committing suicide. Neighbors had alerted emergency services after seeing dead bodies in the house.

An autopsy on the bodies is still ongoing, but investigators have so far found no fatal gunshot wounds, according to prosecutors.

The German authorities have repeatedly expressed their concern about the proliferation and trafficking of false vaccination certificates against covid-19, especially affected by the new wave of the pandemic.

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