Police in Germany are looking for an elderly fugitive. The 96-year-old woman is said to face charges of complicity in the murder of 11,000 concentration camp inmates, but Irmgard Furchner left her home this morning in an unknown direction, the court said.
The woman took a taxi to a metro station in Hamburg, but it is not known where she went afterwards. Judges, prosecutors, journalists and the public waited in vain for her arrival.
The court has issued an arrest warrant. The hearing of her case has been postponed for the time being.
juvenile judge
Furchner worked in the office in Stutthof concentration camp, near present-day Gdansk, from June 1943 to April 1945. Because the woman was younger than 21 at the time and therefore a minor under German law, her case is being heard by the juvenile court.
He will first have to decide whether the woman can handle a trial.
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