Overview
- Police arrested Mike L. on Monday morning in Berlin’s Tempelhof after he failed to return from an unaccompanied leave from JVA Tegel.
- During the period on the run he allegedly ambushed and stabbed his ex-partner in Lankwitz, and investigators are treating the case as dangerous bodily harm.
- The victim suffered severe injuries, was hospitalized, and has since been discharged, according to the reports.
- L., convicted in 2021 of serious rape and related offenses and later given two additional years for an arson attack, had been placed on a social-therapeutic ward with recent permitted leaves to prepare for release.
- BILD reported that the public was not informed about the escape or the knife attack and that a justice administration spokeswoman declined to comment on communications.