German daily Bild questions 'suicide claim' of German farm-couple Heidi and Michael Foltin.. Bild reports (biggest newspapre in Germany):
"Pretoria (South Africa): The coffee was still warm on the table when the police found the two lifeless bodies of Heidi and Michael Foltin. Under the body of the man a .357 magnum revolver was located. The SA police immediately claimed that the German-born orchid farmer shot dead his wife and then himself. They did not investigate further. However friends and families have many doubts and many questions are unanswered. What really happened on the orchid farm in Groblersdal, South Africa? 7th Oct. 2013, 7 a.m. Like every day Heidi is opening the door of her small farm house to let the dog into the courtyard of the farm. The couple came from Stuttgart and emigrated to South Africa eight years earlier to breed orchids.
THE PHONE CALL: At 7h15am The couple's friend Thierry Smeets receives a phone call.. On the other side was Michael calling:"Call the police, there is some shit coming on this farm, call the police!" The call was suddenly interrupted. Smeets: "I called him back immediately..." told Smeets to Bild. But Michael didn't answer the call. "Therefore I called the police" 40 minutes later a police officer called Smeets from the farm house: "Sorry, your two friends are dead. The man shot his wife and than himself" "Impossible", told Smeets told Bild. "Michael was a pacifist. He never owned such a large gun. And he would never sho dead his wife Heidi, never!"
THE GUN: The gun: Steffen the son of the couple flew to South Africa and detected further irregularities. "The chief of Groblersdal POLICE department of crime investigation told me my father was a left hander". "My father was a right hander" told Steffen to Bild. "The .357 Magnum gun is registered to a guy in Joburg (with a criminal record?). But the police didn´t ask him."
THE REASON: Blood spots were found outside the house, said Steffen. "My father's body also had injuries: he had a blackened eye," Steffen told Bird. "Traces of punching"? The son also reported that his parents had experienced ' trouble with the black neighbours and the landlord' who had wanted to chase Michael out of his place:
THE POLICE STATEMENT: e: The investigating police officer Lieutenant Pokane told to Bild:" Workers outside the farm heard shots . But they didn´t see anyone escaping."
THE PAIN: The police didn´t record traces and fingerprints. Nobody in the SAPS is interested in the final phone call Michael had made to his friends Thierry Smeets. Relatives and friends will not let up on the pressure: they want this murder solved.
http://www.bild.de/bild-plus/news/ausland/mord/ehe-paar-in-sued-afrika-erschossen-33145608,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html
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German article:
Bildt.de: "Ehepaar in Südafrika erschossen – war es wirklich Selbstmord?Der rätselhafte Tod der deutschen Orchideenzüchter
Deutsches Ehepaar in Südafrika erschossen
Der Kaffee auf dem Frühstückstisch war noch warm, als die Polizei morgens um 8 Uhr die leblosen Körper von Michael (61) und Heidi F. (57) fand. Unter der Leiche des Mannes lag ein Revolver Kaliber .357 Magnum. Die Polizei notierte: Der deutsche Orchideenzüchter hat erst seine Frau, dann sich selbst erschossen.
Für die Akten ist der Tod der deutschen Auswanderer das, was Experten einen „erweiterten Suizid“ nennen.
Doch ist es wirklich so einfach? Freunde und Familie der Toten zweifeln. Zu viele Fragen sind ungeklärt.
Was passierte wirklich auf der Blumenfarm in Groblersdal, Südafrika?
http://www.bild.de/bild-plus/news/ausland/mord/ehe-paar-in-sued-afrika-erschossen-33145608,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html
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The SAPS and the media could'nt wait to pronounce 'suicide' in the double-murder of German-born flower-growers Michael and Heidi Foltin on 7 October 2013 in Groblersdal. During the attack, they had phoned the neighbouring farmer to let him know they were in danger and to please help. By the time the farmer arrived, the killers had already fled and the couple were dead. The family in Germany is furious. And their relatives in South Africa have lodged a civil suit against the SAPS for not even investigating this is a double-murder. The SA news media had already pronounced this a 'family-murder' and the police never investigated further.
The local area newspaper, Die Daller, writes: "The family are lodging civil litigation against the SAPS because they believe the police are lying about the way in which Michael Foltin and his wife Heidi had died at their farm. "The Daller asked the SAPS to explain the way they investigated the double farm-murders but the police only provided vague answers. "
The Foltin couple came from the Stuttgart, Germany area. https://www.facebook.com/michael.foltin.1?fref=ts
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