Overview
- Police say a 65-year-old man walked up and struck a three-year-old boy in the face on Thursday, 27 August in Pestalozzistraße in Bobingen.
- The boy's father confronted the attacker, who then fled onto a bus and was traced and arrested shortly after at Bobingen train station by local officers.
- The child suffered a hematoma to the nasal bone and bled from the nose but did not require transport by ambulance.
- Police from the Bobingen station have opened an investigation for alleged intentional bodily harm and are probing the suspect's motives and any link to the family.
- The charge named by investigators is vorsätzliche Körperverletzung, which in German law means alleged intentional bodily harm and can lead to criminal prosecution if proved.