Hanover, Germany - Police investigating the grisly shootings
of seven ethnic Asians in a restaurant in Germany said Tuesday they
have found the first solid proof against one of the suspects they are
holding: a bloodstain on his clothing.
Two Vietnamese men were picked up by police on a country road the
day after the massacre, but have denied the killing and have claimed
through their lawyers that they were in a gaming parlour in another
city at the time of the attack.
The mysterious February 4 killings of Danny Wing Hong Fan, 36, who
had lived in Glasgow, Scotland most of his life, and his Berlin-born
wife, 28, both British citizens, and their five staff from four Asian
nations has shaken the Chinese community in Germany.
A spokesman for the task force of 100 detectives working on the
case said a DNA check showed that a trace of blood on the clothing of
a 31-year-old Vietnamese man definitely came from one of the victims.
The homes of four further Vietnamese passport holders have been
searched in the coastal cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven, he added.
The police task force in Hanover, northern Germany has yet to say
if there is any evidence that organized crime may have played a role
in the killings in the rural town of Sittensen, where the neat
restaurant was a popular eating-out venue among the townsfolk.
The staff killed in the Sunday night massacre hailed from Hong
Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. The only survivor was the 2-
year-old daughter of the Lin Yue restaurant's owners.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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