Man charged in Germany after fatal stabbing of his 13-year-old son
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“Man charged in Germany after fatal stabbing of his 13-year-old son”
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All Wikipedia sources are unrelated to the stabbing claim (East Germany history, general Germany info). No independent news sources or web results confirm the incident.
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— East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (Federal Republic of Germa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
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— Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Western and Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north with the Alps to the south. Its sixteen c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
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— Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
“The boy’s mother and 9-year-old sister were seriously injured in the attack”
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“Police said the suspect, 40, has made no statement”
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“A man has been charged with stabbing his wife, daughter and son in the western German city of Witten, resulting in the death of the 13-year-old boy, prosecutors said on Sunday”
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Wikipedia sources are about Witten's library and city information, not the stabbing incident.
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— The Federation Free Evangelical Churches (German: Bund Freier Evangelische Gemeinde or 'Bund-FeG') is an officially recognized church system in Germany.
Founded in 1874, the church is structured as a…
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— The Gustav Landauer Library Witten (German: Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten, GLBW) is a special library in Witten, Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer_Library_Witten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer_Library_Witten
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— Witten (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪtn̩] ) is a city with almost 100,000 inhabitants in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (district) in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witten
“A judge at the district court in the nearby city of Bochum issued an arrest warrant on suspicion of murder and the man has been remanded in custody”
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“The suspect has made no statement, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said”
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“The 40-year-old German national was detained on Saturday”
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— Saturday, Also llamed Sabath is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. No later than the 2nd century AD, the Romans named Saturday diēs Sāturnī ("Saturn's Day") for the god Saturn. His planet,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday
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— Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The show's premiere was hoste…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live
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— The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art was a London weekly newspaper established by A. J. B. Beresford Hope in 1855.
The first editor was the Morning Chronicle's ex-editor John …
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“The boy died despite immediate medical intervention”
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“His mother and nine-year-old sister were seriously injured and were taken to hospital in critical condition”
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“Public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that the mother and daughter are still in the intensive care unit but that their injuries are no longer life threatening”
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