The coming Monday is the “Missing Children’s Day” worldwide. Minors are disappearing again and again in Saxony.
Dresden – The coming Monday is the “Missing Children’s Day” worldwide. Also in Saxony minors keep disappearing.
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Missing since 1984: Felix, then 5 months old, from Dresden. © Ronny Klein
The whereabouts of 67 children and 102 teenagers (14 to 17 years) in the Free State are currently unclear, reports Tom Bernhard from the State Criminal Police Office.
77 of them are unaccompanied minor refugees.
“The numbers are always just a snapshot, because many cases clear up within a short time,” explains the spokesman for the agency.
According to the “Missing Children” initiative, around 60,000 minors disappear nationwide every year.
“80 to 90 percent of cases are resolved in the first few hours or days, but it can take longer for adolescents,” says board member Lars Bruhns.
Most of them would have left their home independently – for example due to poor grades or arguments with their parents. But there are also cases where children never appear again.
Like Felix, who was five months old at the time, and who disappeared from his pram in front of the Dresden Centrum department store in 1984.
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Despite all efforts, he has not yet been found. In 2015, the “Felix” criminal record was closed.
There is also no trace of Christopher Frank (3), who disappeared in Borna in 1995, and Nadine Hertel (8), who disappeared in Leipzig in the same year.
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