The suspect in the case of a deadly attack in Göttingen has been arrested. According to the police, a witness recognized the fugitive at around 10.50 pm in downtown Göttingen and then dialed the emergency call. The access then took place in front of a fast food restaurant, said a police spokeswoman for the news agency dpa.
According to police, the attack took place on Thursday afternoon in Göttingen's Grone district. The 52-year-old man had argued with a woman, attacked them with a weapon and fatally injured.
Witnesses who wanted to help her were also attacked by the alleged perpetrator, according to the police. A second woman suffered such serious injuries that she had to be hospitalized. She floats according to police in mortal danger. After the crime, the man fled with a bicycle.
The police launched a large-scale search operation and published wanted photos. Eyewitnesses wanted to have him on Friday morning in a commuter train direction Hannover discovered. According to media reports, the train crew included a person who might have been the suspect in a compartment and alerted the federal police. The person had hit the window with a hammer and had escaped on foot in Elze station, police said.
The 52-year-old sat according to public prosecutor Göttingen three times because of rape in prison. Recently, he was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1994, said a spokesman for the authority. In 2001 he was released. Previously, he had been sentenced once to five years and once to two years and nine months in prison.