Complaint Filed Against Police Officials over the Murder of 4 Turks in Solingen

In connection with the arson incident in which four Turkish citizens of Bulgarian origin lost their lives in Solingen, Germany, a complaint has been filed against police officials. Seda Başay Yıldız, a lawyer representing the victims of the arson incident in which four Turkish Bulgarian citizens lost their lives in Solingen, Germany, filed a complaint against Wuppertal police officials, citing suspicion that evidence was being withheld. According to the German News Agency (dpa), Yıldız submitted the complaint to the authorities after the 9th hearing at the Wuppertal Regional Court regarding the 40-year-old suspect. In the complaint, Yıldız voiced concerns about the possibility of evidence being concealed by the Wuppertal Police Chief and some police officers investigating the arson incident and expressed that there could be other evidence available. The suspect, a 40-year-old German detained on charges of four murders and 21 attempted murders, was found to have images in his home indicating Nazi sympathies on a hard drive during a previous hearing. On the current hearing, it was reported that the Presiding Judge Jochen Kötter expressed his astonishment at these Nazi-sympathizing images and admitted, “I have to confess to you that this should not have happened.” It had been revealed through a forensic report that the fire that occurred in Solingen on the night of March 24-25, 2024, started in the stairwell of the old building and rapidly spread to the roof due to the “chimney effect.” Some residues were found in the wooden stairwell, leading to the conclusion that the fire was intentionally set ablaze. Wuppertal Prosecutor Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt stated that they did not have any evidence indicating a xenophobic motive behind the incident. In the fire that broke out in a four-story building in the Höhscheid district, four Turkish Bulgarian citizens, including two children, lost their lives, and 9 people were injured, two of them severely. The suspect, who is suspected of setting the building on fire, is held responsible for the deaths of four Turkish Bulgarian citizens aged 28 and 29, including a baby and a 3-year-old child, as well as the severe injuries of three others in the same fire. With 21 people in the building at the time of the incident, the suspect is also charged with 21 counts of attempted murder.