This man tried to kidnap a baby, and was nevertheless let go after his arrest.
The scene of the crime was Gaussig in eastern Saxony, where a 29-year-old Egyptian man approached a property where a pram was standing. Suddenly he stormed off, pushed the parents aside and wanted to run away with the pram and the baby.
“The father and some witnesses prevented the suspect from leaving with the baby. They overpowered him and called the police,” a police spokesman said on Monday.
The officers took the 29-year-old Egyptian to the police station and charged him with attempted child abduction. On the instructions of the public prosecutor’s office, he was allowed to leave after the police measures were completed.
This was despite the fact that the same man had already attracted attention on Friday evening when he also tried to steal a man’s mobile phone in Gaussig. He had already been charged with robbery.
But that was not all: on Sunday, the Egyptian again provoked the police. A witness saw him running along a street in the afternoon holding stones in his hands. When a police patrol arrived, he tried to flee, throwing fist-sized stones at the officers. The police officers chased him for about half an hour and were finally able to catch him.
They initiated a preliminary investigation for threats, coercion, dangerous bodily harm, resistance and assault on law enforcement officers.
But now he was not let go again: An emergency doctor finally admitted the man to a specialist hospital.