Five years Rebecca Reusch: Investigators under fire - remain ambiguities

Five years Rebecca Reusch: Investigators under fire - remain ambiguities

A case that raises many questions and continues to puzzle years after the student Rebecca Reusch from Berlin disappears. The last time the then 15-year-old was seen alive in February 2019. Since then, it has not only been speculated about their possible whereabouts, but also about the procedures of the investigative authorities, which has recently come into focus.

Latest revelations by the police officer Dirk B. bring light into the darkness of the investigation. B. is a civil servant in another police authority and makes it public that he is fueling a suspicion due to emails: there could have been considerable neglect in the investigation. Its bewilderness about the time sequences of the data evaluation and the insufficient reaction to digital traces of Rebecca is clearly noticeable.

Investigations over the years

It has been over five years since Rebecca Reusch has been reported as missing. Despite numerous searches and public reporting, the case is not determined. A previously unknown video was published among the recent developments on the anniversary of their disappearance, but the public prosecutor made it clear that no new knowledge could be gained from this.

The slow handling of the investigation, which Dirk B. moves into the twilight. The official criticizes that the authorities only requested the necessary cell phone data on Google after years. This raises questions about the speed and effectiveness of the investigation, which are particularly important in such a decisive case.

Compared to other methods of investigation, in which information should be available within hours, the periods made here appear extremely long. Web data that could be of central importance to clarify the case were only requested and evaluated much later. A particularly questionable point is the data of the brother -in -law Florian R., about which information only reached the authorities through current inquiries.

The requirements for modern investigations

The Insider Dirk B. also brings up that data evaluations can be processed quickly in his own work area. He relies on experiences that show him that the information required can often be obtained in a fraction of the time that has passed in Rebecca's case. "I know a case in which we received all the data of a perpetrator within hours," he reports, and can hardly believe that such delays occurred in the case of Rebecca.

A comparison becomes clear, according to Dirk B.: In the spring of 2021 - already two years after Rebeccas, the investigators were apparently unable to read out the indispensable data. Only the public pressure and reporting led to the acceleration of the request on Google, which is not understandable for Dirk B.

"I wondered what my colleagues did in the meantime", B. his concerns about the "shocking periods" are in space and raise questions about the efficiency and approach of the Berlin investigation.

In 2023, the terrifying details were finally public: brother -in -law Florian had googled for specific strangulation practices on the morning of disappearance. The consequences of this late information could be of crucial importance to case education.

The Berlin public prosecutor, however, remains reserved and only sparsely provides information on the ongoing investigations. There is ambiguity as to why the inquiries to Google took such a long time and which mechanisms ran behind the scenes. For many questions there is currently no answers to what mistrust is located inside and outside the authorities.

Again and again the processes are compared in other cases with the treatment of Rebecca Reusch, which only increases the uncertainty about the efficiency of the work of the police. The demands of an improvement in the investigative strategies are contrasted with the reality of the paper war and the strict dynamics of the authorities, which often delay these cases.

- Nag