Berlin - Three days after a German couple were killed in the Concorde crash in Paris, their apartment was ransacked by thieves, Derek Scally reports from Berlin. Intruders broke the police seal on the couple's apartment in Potsdam, near Berlin, on Friday night.
A friend of the couple noticed the break-in on Saturday morning and notified the police. Relatives have spent the last days searching through the dead couple's belongings to determine if anything has been stolen. Germany's Bild newspaper reported yesterday that relatives had found nothing missing, though this has not been confirmed by police in Potsdam.
Bild is one of many newspapers to have been criticised by relatives of victims. A day after the crash, Bild printed a passenger list and photos of the dead on its front page under the headline, "The Names, The Fates", ignoring Germany's strict privacy laws.
Relatives of the Potsdam couple want to know whether the intruders learned the dead couple's address from the newspaper. The German Press Council said yesterday it is treating very seriously an official complaint from relatives of victims about crash coverage.