A spokesman for the Frankfurt am Oder state prosecutor's office said the case fit the profile of a string of recent van thefts and that the vehicles were probably destined for eastern Europe, reported the French newspaper Le Figaro (link in French). “The perpetrators were … for the prosecutor's office said. The identity of one of the bodies was revealed Thursday when German newspaper Bild ran the headline “Car Thieves Stole My Mother's Body,” NBC News reported. …

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