Vater der vermissten Inga: "Meine Forderung ist, dass wieder ermittelt wird"
Five years ago, Jens-Uwe Gehricke's daughter Inga disappeared without a trace during a family outing. To this day, it has not been possible to clarify what happened to the 5-year-old on May 2, 2015 at Wilhelmshof, a diaconal institution in Saxony-Anhalt.
The girl was about to walk from the barbecue area at the edge of the grounds to one of the houses. This would have been only about 100 meters on foot. But she never arrived.
Jens-Uwe Gehricke has been closely following the new developments in the case of Madeleine McCann, who was abducted in Portugal in 2007. In an exclusive interview with the magazine Stern, he is now demanding that the case of his missing daughter be reopened. "It is important to me to know where she is. It's burning on my mind", says the 51-year-old. And he continues: "Regardless of the question whether the 'Maddie' case has anything to do with Inga, I now have hope that her case is back in the minds of investigators and the prosecution." Gehricke wants new investigators to look at the case.
Regarding the suspect in the McCann case recently presented by the BKA, who owned an empty box factory just over an hour's drive from Wilhelmshof at the time of Inga's disappearance, Gehricke told Stern: "Perhaps he really did not have any contact with Wilhelmshof. But just to rule that out completely, the case must be reopened." The fact that Christian B. was not logged in to the crime scene area with his cell phone at the time, according to the radio cell query, is not enough for him to justify the fact that he could not have been on site.
Jens-Uwe Gehricke still does not rule out an accident that was subsequently covered up, a kidnapping, a sexual offence or any other act of violence. But: "A second Natascha Kampusch story was always the one I believed in least." The social pedagogue had assumed the worst at an early stage - but he still can't mourn his child. "I want to mourn, I wish I could. But I cannot do it as long as there is no certainty," he says.
In its current issue, Stern also shows for the first time
a so-called aging picture of Inga. It shows what Inga might have looked like at the age of seven. It was created by specialists from the Lower Saxony State Office of Criminal Investigation, the parents were involved in the various design phases at the time.
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The interview itself is subscription-only.
Natscha Kampusch from Austria was kidnapped when she was 10 years of age, and held in captivity for 8 years until she managed to escape.
