Overview
- Prosecutors in Ansbach confirmed a probe on suspicion of prisoner liberation targeting several people believed to have aided the escape.
- Investigators judge the breakout to have been carefully prepared with a well‑planned route, indicating likely external assistance.
- The man failed to return from an authorized outing from the forensic psychiatric clinic in Erlangen in August.
- Officials acknowledged the investigation through spokesperson Jonas Heinzlmeier and declined to release further operational details.
- As an 18‑year‑old in 2009, he injured nine classmates and a teacher in a school attack and was sentenced to nine years’ juvenile detention with indefinite psychiatric confinement.