Two four-year-olds were on their way to kindergarten with their parents, a seven-year-old alone on the way to elementary school: In Leipzig, a 42-year-old man is said to have tried to kidnap several girls on Tuesday.
Now the suspect is in custody.
There is an urgent suspicion of attempted sexual abuse of a child, the attempted deprivation of minors and coercion, the police said on Wednesday.
Because of the energetic behavior of the children, their parents and passers-by, the man did not manage to pull the children away.
Then he ran away.
With a large contingent and the use of police dogs and a helicopter, the man was searched for, as the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" reported.
On Tuesday afternoon, the suspect was arrested in a wood in the east of Leipzig.
It is also being checked whether there is a connection with another case: In the same district, a man stopped a 29-year-old's car on Tuesday morning and tried to get in.
When the woman defended herself against it, she was beaten by the man who then fled.
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