Prosecutors investigating the Germanwings crash have said there were indications the co-pilot hid his illness from his employers.
In a news conference on Friday, the prosecutors said that Andreas Lubitz hid a sick note on the day the Airbus A320 crashed into a mountainside during a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf.
The torn-up note, dated on the day of the crash on Tuesday, was found during searches of the 27-year-old's flat in Dusseldorf and the home he shared with his parents in the town of Montabaur.
The prosecutors added that documents showed he was receiving medical treatment, but that no suicide note or claim of responsibility for the crash was found.
They said: "Documents with medical contents were confiscated that point towards an existing illness and corresponding treatment by doctors.
"The fact there are sick notes saying he was unable to work, among other things, that were found torn up, which were recent and even from the day of the crime, support the assumption based on the preliminary examination that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and his professional colleagues."
No evidence of a political or religious motivation behind the crash was found.
Lubitz has been accused of deliberately flying the aircraft into a mountainside shortly after preventing the captain from re-entering the cockpit.
All 150 on board the aircraft died in the crash.
German media has reported that Lubitz received treatment for a "serious depressive episode" six years ago during his training to become a pilot.
On Friday, Germanwings said it was setting up a family assistance centre in Marseille for relatives of those killed in the crash.
Spokesman Thomas Winkelmann said in a statement that "in these dark hours our full attention belongs to the emotional support of the relatives and friends of the victims of Flight 9525."
Some relatives took part in a memorial service on Thursday near the crash site in the French Alps.
German President Joachim Gauck also attended a memorial service in Haltern for 16 students and two teachers from the local high school who were killed.
It comes as police and rescue workers hunt for the aircraft's second black box on the fourth day of recovery operations at the scene of the crash.
Officials are searching the wreckage for body parts and DNA to try and identify the 150 people killed in the crash.
Some 75 German people were on board the aircraft, which was flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. At least 50 Spanish citizens were also on the flight, along with three Britons.
German media has also reported that Lubitz received treatment for a "serious depressive epsiode" six years ago during his training to become a pilot.
For several hours investigators took away cases and boxes from both addresses. In Dusseldorf police said that they were "looking for clues as to what the co-pilot's motivation might have been".
In Montabaur neighbours reacted with disbelief when the heard of Lubitz's involvement.
One man, who did not want to be named, said that he had known the pilot since childhood.
He told Sky News: "I cannot imagine that he has done it with intention.
"This does not fit in this picture I have of him. It is a very upright family, very helpful and I cannot understand what has happened.
"I knew the children when they were small boys."
Lubitz grew up dreaming of becoming a pilot.
As a teenager he gained his glider's licence after training with LSC Westerwald flying club in his hometown.
Klaus Radke, the chairman of the gliding club, said: "Over the time he was with us he was a very calm, responsible man.
"Or let me say he was acting responsibly, like many, many others who learn gliding here at our club."
After a period of further training in Arizona, he took a job with Lufthansa in Germany.
The airline's chief executive said air crew were carefully selected and subjected to psychological vetting.
Despite suggestions that Lubitz may have suffered bouts of depression, there seemed little to suggest that he had been suicidal.
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