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Swedish Woman Remanded on Manslaughter Suspicion in Munich Homeless Camp Death

DNA testing identified the victim as a 32-year-old Polish woman.

Overview

  • Firefighters discovered the woman's body after extinguishing a blaze at a makeshift shelter off Lerchenauer Straße on the night of November 3–4.
  • An autopsy indicated signs of a violent crime, prompting homicide investigators to take over the case.
  • The Munich district court issued a pretrial detention warrant on November 6 on suspicion of manslaughter, and the 28-year-old Swedish suspect was taken into custody.
  • Police say the suspect had been living in the shelter with the victim, both were previously known to authorities, and forensic work including a fire report is ongoing alongside a public witness appeal.
  • In a separate case in Hamburg, a man died after suspected violence in a Heimfeld apartment, a woman was provisionally detained, and the investigation was passed to the murder commission.