About forty miles southeast of Stuttgart, getting almost into Bavaria....is the town of Ulm, population of roughly 120,000 Germans.
Cops there came upon a burglary situation, with a death involved. What the cops say is that an older guy...59 years old....walked into the house to find the burglars at work. Note plural here.
The story goes to this situation....the man and woman burglary team ended up roughing up the 59-year old German guy. By statements in the news....they must have hit the guy in the head fairly hard. Then they tied the guy up.
Well, when the cops arrived and called for an ambulance....the German 59-year old guy ended up dead from the injury to the head.
The forensics team ended up pointing back at a particular couple....Eastern European in nature, and a few days later, they were arrested. Husband and wife team. The material taken by the two hasn't turned up, but there appears to be enough evidence to put them at the scene.
The sad thing here is that they kinda crossed the line, and caused this one German guy's death. One of the two (either the husband or the wife) will end up having to do some pretty serious prison time.
This is one of the odd aspects of crime in Germany today. A large group of the criminally-minded folks are mostly just 'nickle-and-dime' burglary folks, who see Germany as a 'Disneyland-like' situation for easy break-in's and no real threat from law enforcement. In this case, by the assault involved....they've basically ended their burglary lifestyle.
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