At the Coburg district court, a 47-year-old defendant fled the court during the court hearing. A large number of people are looking for the man, said the spokesman for the Coburg police inspection, Stefan Probst. A police helicopter is also used. During a break in negotiations, the 47-year-old fled through a window on the ground floor that was apparently insufficiently secured.
That the man has to answer for the sexual abuse of his two underage daughters, like the people of Coburg New press reported, the police spokesman initially did not want to confirm, but did not deny this either. According to the newspaper, the 47-year-old was said to have had his shackles removed before he fled because he allegedly had to go to the toilet. According to a police spokesman, the 47-year-old was in detention in the Kronach penitentiary. At the beginning of the day of the trial, officials brought him to Coburg. The “exact modalities of the escape” are not yet clear, said the spokesman.
According to the police, the man is wearing a wine-red sweater and black trousers, is 1.80 meters tall and has a full beard. According to Probst, his appearance was “southern influenced”. Only at the beginning of the year did a murderer escape from the district court in Regensburg. After several days, the man was arrested in France. In the meantime he has been transferred back to Bavaria.