On Christmas eve, neighbors found in the Thuringian town of Nordhausen, a dead pensioner-couple. According to police there was “massive violence”.

Nordhausen -After the violent death of a pensioner married couple on Christmas eve in Nordhausen (Thuringia) is looking for the police or the perpetrators. The autopsy of the two bodies have confirmed the suspicion of a Homicide, said a police spokeswoman on Tuesday. It was not excluded that several Jestbahis people were involved in the act.

neighbors had discovered on Monday morning, the lifeless body of the 82-year-old man and his 80-year-old woman and called the police. The killed couple was, according to a police spokeswoman in the courtyard of his property. In both there had been signs of “massive trauma”. A possible motive for the fact the police have not commented initially.

Concrete information on a possible offender, it is not, still a spokesman said. On the possible circumstances of the offence, he did not want to speak of determination tactical reasons, at first. It will continue to search for witnesses. A day after the grisly discovery of several officials in Nordhausen were on the road, in order to determine in the vicinity of the crime scene.

dpa