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A fire has engulfed the Kehlsteinhaus, also known as the Eagle’s Nest, in the Bavarian Alps, with a man arrested on suspicion of arson. There have been no reported injuries, and firefighters continue to battle the blaze following the outbreak on Friday evening.
The Traunstein criminal investigation department has initiated an inquiry into the fire, while the identity of the arrested individual remains undisclosed. Due to severe damage, authorities have stated it is uncertain whether the Kehlsteinhaus can be restored.
Bavarian Police have launched an investigation into the fire at the Kehlsteinhaus, and officials are assessing the extent of the damage to determine the building’s future. The local tourism authority has indicated that restoration may not be feasible due to the severity of the damage.
What remains unclear — It is uncertain whether the fire can be restored due to the severe damage to the building.
Fire at Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat leads to arson arrest in Bavaria
A fire has ripped through the mountaintop retreat built for Adolf Hitler known as the Eagle’s Nest, with a man arrested on suspicion of arson.
Flames ripped through the Kehlsteinhaus in the Bavarian Alps, which was originally commissioned by the Nazi Party in the 1930s.
A fire alarm sounded in the building near Berchtesgaden at around 9.15pm on Friday, with the blaze spotted by emergency services spreading across the peak at 1,834 metres above sea level.
In a statement, Bavarian Police said 200 firefighters had been dispatched to the building.
An update issued by the force this afternoon said drones had been banned from flying over the area, with hikers and mountaineers urged to avoid the peak.
‘Extinguishing operations continue. Please keep the operational area clear’, the statement said.
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Flames tear through the Kehlsteinhaus in the Bavarian Alps, a retreat visited by Adolf Hitler (Picture: AFP)
Emergency services were called to the blaze near the town of Berchtesgaden after 9pm on Friday (Picture: AP)
Firefighters faced a challenge reaching the remote location and required respiratory protection equipment to access the building and its surrounding area, with teams still fighting the blaze this morning.
One unnamed person has been arrested, although it is yet to be confirmed whether they had any part in the cause of the fire.
Nobody was found in the building, and no injuries have been reported.
An investigation into the fire has been launched by the Traunstein criminal investigation department.
Completed in just over a year near the Austrian border in 1938, the Kehlsteinhaus originally hosted events for the Nazi Party, at least 14 of which Hitler is documented to have attended.
Firefighters were still tackling the inferno this morning, with one suspect currently being held by authorities (Picture: Reuters)
In April 1945, it was the target of RAF bombing, although the building was not directly struck in the Allied attack.
Today the site is used by a charitable trust as a tourist attraction, with a restaurant and beer garden.
Given the severe damage to the building, it is unknown whether it can be restored, a local tourism authority said.
Private vehicles are not allowed up the mountain because the road leading to it is too narrow to accommodate them, with access only permitted on foot and via designated shuttle buses.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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