The Hamburg Police on Wednesday has reported the arrest of a 22 -year -old family of Alexandra Fröhlich the writer killed in her floating house in the city of northern Germany in April. German newspapers identify the detainee as One of the victim’s children.
“Within the framework of the joint investigation of the Homicide Brigade and the Department of Capital Crimes of the Hamburg Prosecutor’s Office, the family of the deceased, 22, He caught the attention of the agents, after which the competent District Court issued a preventive detention order At the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, “according to a police statement.
According to him Journal ‘Bild‘, the relative detained is one of the three children of the author, “who He would have hit his own mother And now he is suspicious of murder. “
The authorities specified in his letter that the victim’s autopsy revealed that he had died “As a consequence of trauma” caused by “a blunt object”, which contradicted the first information about death, which pointed to mortal gunshot wounds.
The young man’s arrest occurred on Tuesday, after a fifteen days of the discovery of the 58 -year -old victim, in his floating house in the Moorfleet district, southwest of the port city of the North German.
Fröhlich was the author of several successful books in Germany, with the title ‘My Russian mother -in -law and other disasters‘ o ‘My Russian mother -in -law and other catastrophes’which integrated the list of the best -selling works of the German magazine ‘Der Spiegel’, one of the referents to determine literary success in Germany.
Fröhlich published two recent works with the Penguin publishing house, one of the greats in the sector, and worked for several publications, such as the ‘Stern’ weekly.
In his works, according to literary criticism, Fröhlich mixed humor with family and social theme stories.