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Klinikum am Weissenhof: offenders on the run
Photo: Bernd Weißbrod / dpa
After the outbreaks from a psychiatric clinic in Baden-Württemberg, two of the four fugitive patients were arrested in the Spanish metropolis of Barcelona.
The police had previously covered up the 28 and 36-year-old wanted persons and tracked and located them with the help of the targeted search of the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office.
The men drove through several European countries on Wednesday alone on the way to Spain before they went online to the authorities in the evening, the Heilbronn police said.
Still on the run are a 24-year-old who escaped with the two men and a fourth inmate who had already been arrested three weeks ago from the closed ward of the Klinikum am Weissenhof in Weinsberg (Heilbronn district), and a 40-year-old man from the open station.
This has been searched for since last Saturday.
According to police investigations, these two cases should not be related.
Patients keep escaping from psychiatric hospitals.
Last year there were 47 such cases in 1252 patients nationwide in Baden-Württemberg, according to earlier information from the Ministry of Health.
ptz / dpa
