Two arrested after house collapse in Görlitz

Authorities have arrested two individuals in connection with the fatal house collapse that occurred in Görlitz over three weeks ago. The suspects, a 27-year-old Polish national and a 33-year-old Afghan, are currently in pre-trial detention for unrelated charges.

Police and prosecutors are investigating the incident on suspicion of causing an explosive detonation resulting in death, combined with negligent homicide. According to Kai Siebenäuger, spokesperson for the Görlitz police, the two men were reportedly searching for stolen goods, specifically bicycles, scrap metal, and copper pipes, in the street where the house collapsed on the afternoon of May 18th. Investigators are examining whether the men entered the building before its collapse.

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Police and prosecutors are investigating on suspicion of causing an explosive detonation with death in conjunction with negligent homicide.

The incident on May 18th tragically claimed the lives of two tourists from Romania, aged 25 and 26, and a 48-year-old man who held both Bulgarian and German citizenship. For days, hundreds of emergency personnel, including firefighters, technical relief agency workers, police, and search dog teams, sifted through the rubble, at times using shovels and their bare hands in the desperate search for survivors. The initial assumption for the cause of the house's destruction was a gas explosion.

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Especially bicycles, scrap metal and also copper pipes. Non-ferrous metal.