Cinematic outbreak in Bavaria
Inmate claws through prison wall and escapes
Attempts to escape from German prisons are very rare
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An inmate at the Bad Reichenhall JVA managed to escape in mid-December. The enormous effort was hardly worth it.
You’ve already seen an outbreak like this in the movies, but can it work in real life? In Bad Reichenhall, a prisoner escaped using cutlery and bed sheets. A press spokeswoman for the Bavarian Ministry of Justice confirmed star-Request a corresponding one Report from the “Passauer Neue Presse”.
On the night of December 16th to 17th, 2023, a 28-year-old escaped from his cell on the first floor of the Bad Reichenhall prison by using a spoon and a knife from his cutlery as well as a broken toilet paper holder to remove the mortar between bricks . He then rappelled down through the resulting hole in the outer wall using bed sheets from a height of around six meters.
Prisoner breaks out of Bad Reichenhall prison
Just one day later, the man was caught again, writes a press spokeswoman for the Bavarian Ministry of Justice star. “The processes and security measures for additional security at the Bad Reichenhall JVA were examined intensively after the incident and fundamentally revised,” she said. “This means that prisoners will no longer be housed in cells on the outer wall.”
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According to the Ministry of Justice, the briefly escaped person has been in custody since February 2023: first in the Traunstein JVA, then in April 2023 in the Bad Reichenhall JVA and since his capture in the Munich JVA.
“The prisoner is particularly accused of stealing sacred objects (including grave crosses, grave lanterns) from cemeteries, churches and shops in the Traunstein area in 35 cases between December 2022 and January 2023,” according to the Ministry of Justice. “In addition, when the prisoner was arrested, files containing child pornographic content were found on his cell phone.”
Sources: Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, “Passauer Latest News” (paid content).