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The spokesman of the Trier police, Uwe Konz, spoke to RTL Luxembourg about the body parts discovered yesterday at the German border. For the time being, he refuses to make the link with cases in Luxembourg.
The day after the macabre discovery was made in a corner of the forest in Temmels, at the Germany-Luxembourg border, the spokesman for the Trier police, Uwe Konz, is playing it safe. In an interviewed with RTL Luxembourg, he explained that it was “important to wait for the DNA analysis and not to speculate on the identity” of the victim.
The similarities with the murder case of Diana Santos are indeed disturbing. On Monday, September 19, a dismembered body was found behind an old supermarket in Mont-Saint-Martin, a town in Meurthe-et-Moselle located at the border between Belgium and Luxembourg. It turned out that the dismembered body was that of a 40-year-old mother who lived in Diekirch: Diana Santos. The public prosecutor’s office of Diekirch was then charged with the investigation.
Yesterday, not far from the German town of Temmels, human body parts were found in hedges near a parking lot. The Trier media “News TR” reports they found legs and a head.
The search continued on Wednesday “to try and find other pieces or objects that can help us identify the victim,” added Uwe Konz. “We still don’t know who it is and we are waiting for the results of the forensic examination, especially the DNA analysis, to hopefully find the name of this person that we found here in several pieces.”It is difficult to know how soon the answer to this question will fall, according to the spokesman of the Trier police. In the meantime, he does not want to speculate on a possible link with Diana Santos.
It seems certain that the death is from this year. “It is not a question of a mummified corpse, for example.” But the exact time of death can not yet be known.
In connection with the murder of Diana Santos, a 48-year-old man is still on remand in Schrassig prison for almost a month.
Luxembourg is also in contact with the public prosecutor’s office in Trier. It is not possible at this time to confirm or deny a link with the body Diana Santos, they replied.