A 15-year-old has been taken into custody because he is said to have tried to strangle a girl of the same age in Ulm. The young person called the emergency services on Thursday night and said that he had killed his girlfriend, the public prosecutor’s office reported together with the police on Friday. The lifeless 15-year-old was then found in a forest and taken to a hospital. The suspect was arrested nearby.

The young people’s health was “extremely critical” in the morning, it said. A judge issued an arrest warrant for the 15-year-old on Thursday. The public prosecutor’s office and the police are now investigating attempted murder. The motive and other details were initially unknown.