After the two fires in a 16-story skyscraper in Laim, the police are now looking for a 71-year-old. He is suspected of having started the fire in an apartment on the ninth floor at around 4:10 a.m. on Thursday and then lit a car in the underground car park. The fire had spread to a second vehicle and damaged a third.
The man had moved away from the house on Hauzenberger Strasse after the alleged arson and has been on the run ever since. On Friday the public prosecutor’s office in Munich I ordered to look for the 71-year-old by public search. Witnesses are asked to contact Kommissariat 13, phone 089 / 2910-0, with information. More than 100 firefighters were on duty in the fire. Nobody was injured, but there was damage to property amounting to half a million euros.