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The mother of Ekaterina Baumann, who is accused of being drugged, killed and dismembered by her husband Walter, says she is not being allowed to see her 6-year-old granddaughter, Viktoria.
A fierce verbal conflict has so far arisen between the family members of the Russian girl, whose body was found dismembered in a suitcase, and her German husband, accused of murder.
Ekaterina Baumann, 32, was drugged, strangled and her body dismembered by her 43-year-old husband Walter, according to German prosecutors in Bremerhaven.
Ekaterina’s family now accuses the officials of not allowing them to meet the couple’s six-year-old daughter, who has been under the care of the institutions since the crime.
They claim that the little girl is forbidden to speak Russian and is only allowed to be close to her German family members.
The little one’s grandmother Svetlana Bolgova, 53, accuses the Baumann family of being at the family home the night Ekaterina died.
Svetlana complained in Russian media that she traveled to Germany after the incident, for her granddaughter’s sixth birthday on July 15, but was only allowed to see her after four days and only for an hour.
“I was there in time for my granddaughter’s birthday, but I was only allowed to see her for an hour, after four days. Only for one hour! I stayed in Germany for two weeks and they only allowed me this meeting with my niece.”
She added that she was allowed to hug her granddaughter “in the presence of a social worker and a translator”.
“Under close supervision, we talked a little, drew. Before that, I signed a letter where I promised not to take my granddaughter and not to tell her about what her father had done.”
Ekaterina’s family says they are not allowed to talk to Viktoria even via video link and cannot write her letters, not even in German.
Svetlana told Russian media: “My granddaughter is forbidden to speak Russian. They justify this with the fact that his father cursed him in Russian, therefore according to them ‘this language hurts him'”.
“But this is not true because Katya sang songs to her, told her fairy tales in her native language.”
Parts of Ekaterina’s body were found in a suitcase dumped in the Weser River in March.
Her husband, a port worker, has been accused of murder, but the motives are still unknown.
Custody of Victoria will subsequently be decided in court, authorities said.
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