The gruesome murder of Luise, a 12-year-old girl, has left Germany speechless. The population is not coming out of the turmoil caused by the crime committed by two other minors.

Luise went outside to see two “friends”. They were classmates. One 12-year-old and the other 13. The drama, on Saturday March 11, 2023, was lurking in Freudenberg, near Cologne.

The girl did not return home, located near the town of Freudenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, and unfortunately her body was found the next day.

Luise’s parents, Infobae pointed out, reported her disappearance after she failed to return from visiting one of the suspects, the 13-year-old, at her home about two miles away.

With Luise, her friends were merciless. There was cruelty.

In Freudenberg’s Protestant church, there was a book of condolence for the murdered girl and a card that read “We mourn for Luise”. Photo: INA FASSBENDER

According to police sources, Luise was stabbed more than 30 times with a nail file before being pushed down a steep slope into nearby forest, the Daily Mail reported.

Those who took part in such a heinous act also “put a plastic bag over Luise’s head before one shudderingly said to the other:” Hit her with a rock.

Initial reports indicated, Infobae said, that the elder allegedly coerced the other friend into assisting her in the murder. They apparently had a discussion hours earlier.

The compañeras confessed to how they killed Luise and are “indisputable”

The gruesome details shocked the Germans, who wonder how you can get this far at 12 and 13 years old.

Luise died as a result of numerous knife wounds and loss of blood, Koblenz prosecutor Mario Mannweiler said, the AFP agency reported.

Police made their fears public to the press: they believe “Luise could have been alive before she was thrown off the embankment and died of her injuries and the sub-zero conditions that hit the area over the weekend.”

A makeshift memorial made of flowers and candles has been erected at the place where the body of the murdered schoolgirl was found in Freudenberg, Germany. Photo: INA FASSBENDER

The girls presumably carried Luise to her death “through a disused railway tunnel leading from the village of Hohenhain, just 2 miles (3.2 km) from Freudenberg, into the woods”.

The two girls, identified as Luisa and Anna-Maria by the aforementioned British media, are under the age of 14 and have no criminal responsibility for their actions in Germany.

“You’re a Star in the Sky”

The victim’s devastated parents stated in an obituary: “There are no words to capture the unthinkable. The world stops for us.”

The local newspaper where the obituary was published featured a photo of Luise, born August 29, 2010, with these other words: “You can’t see the pain, you can’t hear it, you can only feel it.”

Outside their home, they also honored their daughter by leaving a lit candle next to the message, “Now you are a star in the sky.”

The Esther-Bejarano de Freudenberg school, where Luise attended, expressed its solidarity: “We have lost our student, classmate and friend Luise (…) She was taken from us and her family too quickly by force.”