BERLIN: A local politician from the German city of Kassel was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, police said Monday, adding that no weapon was found at the scene.
"We are looking for a perpetrator," said chief prosecutor Horst Streiff after the death of city administrative chief Walter Luebcke, who was 65.Luebcke, of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU party, was found around 0:30 am local time Sunday on the terrace of his home in Wolfhagen, near Kassel in the central state of Hesse.His CDU party said in a statement that Luebcke, a married father of two, had"never been afraid to speak his mind".
Hesse state criminal police chief Sabine Thurau said however that currently there was no evidence of a link between those comments and his death, and that a 20-officer investigation team was searching for a possible motive and a suspect.
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