Five children and adolescents have been following a suspected burglary in the center of Cologne with the police a chase over several highways delivered. The group of 12- to 14-year olds raced with a car in the night of Sunday on the highways 57, 44 and 52, before it was stopped in the Essen district Kaarst, the police said Cologne.
The group is suspected of having previously broken into an electronics store in Cologne's Ehrenstraße. Witnesses spoke of a loud bang and saw the alleged perpetrators fled in a car. The police finally discovered the escape car on the A57. The driver raced according to the information "with excessive speed" and "with constant lane changes" in the direction Dormagen.
The police also used a helicopter to drive the car over several highways. In Essen finally the escape of the young people ended. Two of them still tried to escape on foot from the officials. But they too were caught shortly afterwards.
The youths are currently questioned and questioned by detectives in Essen, the police announced Cologne on Sunday afternoon.