"Identify Me" campaign leads to success for the first time
With the international "Identify Me" campaign, the police want to solve previously unsolved murders of women. In a case from Belgium dating back 31 years, investigators are now one step closer. Relatives can identify the victim.
For the first time, a previously unknown female murder victim has been identified in the international police campaign "Identify Me". Relatives from Wales in Great Britain were able to identify a woman who was found murdered in a river in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1992, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Wiesbaden.
The case had also been reported in Great Britain. In the campaign, the Belgian authorities had drawn attention to a striking flower tattoo that the woman had on her forearm. This enabled relatives to recognize the woman.
She was a 31-year-old woman from Cardiff who had moved to Antwerp in February 1992 shortly before her murder. With this campaign, the BKA is looking for clues to six German murder cases. So far, 950 leads have been received, most of which are still being investigated.
- The "Identify Me" campaign, which aims to solve international cases of murder and manslaughter of women, has also gained traction in Germany, managed by the BKA based in Wiesbaden.
- The success of the campaign in Belgium led to the identification of a 31-year-old German woman, whose body was discovered in a river in Antwerp, as a victim of femicide.
- The Belgian authorities involved in the campaign had highlighted the victim's distinctive flower tattoo on her forearm, which eventually helped her relatives in Wales to recognize her.
- In collaboration with other countries, the BKA has also launched an investigation into six murder cases in Germany, receiving over 950 leads through the "Identify Me" campaign, most of which are still under examination.
Source: www.ntv.de
