German police blame internet host for suicide death

By Allan Hall in Berlin Published: 7:23PM GMT 03 March 2010

Thorsten Schmidt, 18, killed himself after posting comments on self-help forum last month claiming he was going to finish his life.

At 1.06am on the day of his death, he wrote: "I have been yearning for love for an eternity, but, no, I haven"t even managed to have a short relationship. Nobody hates me as most as I hatred myself."

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Then at 6.07am, he said: "I usually only managed to write this, I have beheld the clever outcome of the pills and I am starting to tumble asleep."

Nadine Friedrichs, the director of the forum, called military when she saw his messages. Officers arrived at her home mins after and took down the online residence of the sender of the messages.

They afterwards asked internet use provider, Deutsche Telekom, to lane down Schmidt"s travel residence but were told the "legal grounds" for giving out the report had not been met.

Rainer Bruckert, head of inquisitive await in Hanover, said: "I am really repelled that Telekom spies on the call interpretation of the own employees but refuses to yield report that could save a human life."

Police eventually found Thorsten"s physique at 11.18am on the sunrise of his genocide after picking up his internet route by a opposite use provider.

"Twenty mins and we could have saved him," pronounced an military spokesman. "Five hours and the pills won. I consternation with what kind of faceless bureaucracy we are traffic with here."

Deutsche Telekom has refused to criticism on the situation in sequence to equivocate "influencing probable investigations."