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District Court of Regensburg: jump out of the window
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The police are still looking for a murderer who fled from the district court in Regensburg.
So far, 151 tips have been received about the fugitive, a police spokesman said on Monday.
However, there is no concrete evidence of the man's whereabouts.
The 40-year-old is also being searched for internationally.
It is unclear whether the man had helpers during his escape or whether he may have already fled abroad.
The convicted murderer and an accomplice attacked a lottery shop in Nuremberg in 2011 and killed the 76-year-old owner.
In 2013 he was sentenced to life imprisonment and has been in prison in Straubing ever since.
He had to answer to the district court of Regensburg for resisting law enforcement officials in the JVA.
When the hearing was adjourned for a meeting with his lawyer on Thursday, the man managed to escape from the lawyer's room on the first floor of the court.
According to the spokesman, the prisoner's bonds were removed for the lawyer's interview.
A guard was standing in front of the lawyer's office door, and another was on his way to the lawyer's office window.
The man fled "within a few seconds," said the spokesman.
The lawyer then informed the officials that his client had fled.
The processes in the district court would now be checked after the incident, it said.
The police asked possible witnesses for information and warned against addressing the wanted person directly, as he is considered violent.
The man is 1.76 meters tall, slim and has shoulder to elbow length, wavy dark hair.
Information on the whereabouts of the man should be given to the police directly via the emergency call 110.
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