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Woman, 21, is stabbed to death 'by drugged-up boyfriend' at outdoor rave as hundreds dance nearby
A 21-year-old woman was stabbed to death 'by her drugged-up boyfriend' while hundreds of people danced at a nearby outdoor rave.
Emma Drebenstedt had attended a techno party, along with nearly 200 others, in a forest near Dresden, Germany, before she was tragically killed in the early hours of May 18.
At around 3.45am, furious locals called the police to file complaints about the noise coming from the 'illegal' rave. Patrol cars from the local station were dispatched to comb the area and around three hours later cops broke up the party.
But a group of partygoers stumbled across Emma's boyfriend, 16, a short time later as they made their way home. He appeared confused, intoxicated, and had bloody hands, according to local reports.
The young woman's body was then found near a wooded path nearby, riddled with stab wounds to her neck and stomach. Pathologists later ruled that she had died from blood loss following her injuries.
Her boyfriend, from Pirna, tested positive for drugs when he was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
He has since been placed in a psychiatric facility and no information regarding a motive has yet been released.
Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Emma's father, music producer Patrick Drebenstedt, 42, revealed the boy and Emma had just started dating.
'Emma was such a wonderfully cheerful person, she loved music, and she still had so much planned', he said.
The woman was set to begin an apprenticeship this year and wanted to enjoy a relaxing summer of freedom before starting work.
'She quit her part-time job specifically for this,' her father told the newspaper.
Following the tragic death, Emma's father has set up a GoFundMe on May 21 in a bid to raise money to fund her funeral.
'The money won't bring the child back. But it should also help with the upcoming court case,' he said.
Over £32,000 has been raised so far.
After the coroner has given his approval, Emma's body will be transported to Saxony-Anhalt where she will be laid to rest at the family's grave in Magdeburg.
'She always wished to one day be buried in the family grave. We are now granting her this wish far too soon,' her father added.
It comes after f ive people were killed and four more injured after a man allegedly went on a rampage at a child's 15th birthday party when a guest refused to have sex with him last month.
Seventeen-year-old Mikhail Paramonov is believed to have attacked guests at a country house in Siberia's Baikalsk after a 14-year-old girl turned him away.
Friends at the event in Irkutsk region, Russia stood up for the girl after she rejected his advances, and urged him to go to sleep because he was 'drunk'.
But Paramonov, whose parents owned the dacha, was said to have become 'heavily intoxicated' before allegedly attacking and killing four teenagers with a knife.
Children between the ages of 13 and 16 were killed in the attack, TASS reported. Four others among the 14 present were also wounded.
One girl named Veronika, 15, pretended to be dead after being stabbed - which may have saved her life. She ran to a neighbour for help, who called the police.
When the police arrived, they saw the suspect 'naked and holding a knife'.
He ran back into the house and 'opened a gas canister' before setting the house on fire, killing himself, per TASS.
Police found five bodies in the smouldering remains of the house, including four males and one female.
