Berlin: The state finance minister of Germany’s Hesse region, which includes Frankfurt, has been found dead. The body of Thomas Schaefer, a 54-year-old member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, was found Saturday on railway tracks at Hochheim, near Frankfurt. Police and prosecutors said that factors including questioning of witnesses and their own observations at the scene led them to conclude that Schaefer killed himself. State governor Volker Bouffier linked Schaefer’s death to the virus crisis on Sunday. Schaefer had been Hesse’s state finance minister for a decade.

Source: Mint March 29, 2020 12:45 UTC