Bundeskriminalamt
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, Inspector Lunge's agency, which spent years treating Tenma as the killer.
The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, is the federal investigative police agency under the Federal Ministry of the Interior, headquartered in Wiesbaden. In Monster it is the agency of Inspector Heinrich Lunge, and for most of the story it treats Dr. Kenzo Tenma, not Johan, as the murderer.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Police Office)
- Headquarters
- Wiesbaden, Hesse
Facts from the source article.
Background
Lunge's case begins with the 1986 poisoning of Eisler Memorial Hospital's director and two senior doctors, which he investigates with Inspector Egon Weißbach of the North Rhine-Westphalia police; Tenma, who had just been demoted, is the chief suspect. When Adolf Junkers is shot dead in 1995 with Tenma on the scene, the BKA makes Tenma its prime suspect, and Lunge follows him across Germany, at one point planting a false newspaper report in Hamburg to trap him. Tenma is finally arrested in Prague and handed over to German custody, and only after the Ruhenheim massacre, with Lunge's testimony, is he cleared. Lunge then retires from the BKA to teach at a police academy, named in the novel Another Monster as the North Rhine-Westphalia State Police Academy.
Elsewhere in Monster
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