Police detained the 43-year-old Polish citizen Marek R. on Thursday, 22 October, shortly after noon, under a European Arrest Warrant, with a national warrant also issued.
Police in Giessen and prosecutors in Marburg said the 35-year-old woman was struck 19 times with a knife. Her body was found on Wednesday, 21 October, and the weapon has not been found.
The Regional Court in Szczecin remanded the suspect in temporary custody on Friday, 23 October. Prosecutors in Marburg plan to seek his extradition to Germany.
A 35-year-old woman was last seen near the Erlenring-Center shopping centre in Marburg, Hesse, on Tuesday, 20 October. Her body was found on Wednesday, 21 October, in bushes behind a glass recycling container on Am Erlengraben, a few hundred metres from the centre. Police in Giessen and prosecutors in Marburg said she had been struck 19 times with a knife, and the murder weapon has not been found. Polish outlets reported that she was pregnant. Deutsche Welle reported that in the days before her death she had stayed in a women's shelter because of problems linked to another former partner, and that she and the suspect had been in a relationship in the past.
Police arrested a Polish citizen suspected of the killing on Thursday, 22 October, shortly after noon, on a street in Szczecin not far from an apartment he had rented. Polish police identified him as Marek R., 43, while Deutsche Welle gave his age as 42. German criminal police asked their Polish counterparts for help after information suggested he was heading toward the Polish border. The CBŚP pursuit unit, nicknamed "Shadow Hunters" (Łowcy Cieni), worked with officers of the West Pomeranian regional police to narrow the search down to a location in Szczecin. Police did not disclose how the arrest was made.
Police spokesman Piotr Jaworski said the information about the killing reached the CBŚP on Thursday morning through the international cooperation bureau of the national police headquarters. He said the suspect was a 43-year-old Polish citizen with a European Arrest Warrant issued against him. Jaworski said the operation ended with the suspect's detention.
“He was detained without delay.”
In a communiqué issued on Friday, the West Pomeranian police justified the speed of the operation.
“Given the nature of the alleged act and the potential threat to public safety, immediate action was necessary.”
The force also credited the rapid exchange of information between Polish and German services as key to the operation.
On Friday, 23 October, the Regional Court in Szczecin remanded the suspect in temporary custody, a pre-trial measure that is not a conviction. Further procedural steps linked to the European arrest warrant were scheduled for the same day. Prosecutors in Marburg said they would seek his extradition to Germany. Investigators have not established a motive, and the circumstances of the killing remain unclear. According to 24kurier.pl, Marburg criminal police quickly established that she had last been seen with him, and a witness reportedly said the two had argued.
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Police in Szczecin detained a Polish citizen on Thursday, 22 October, on a European Arrest Warrant over the suspected killing of a 35-year-old woman in Marburg, Germany.
AI text based on reports by 24kurier.pl, NIEZALEZNA.PL, Deutsche Welle and other publishers. Published .