Overview

• The 39-year-old inmate has been serving a five-year sentence for two robberies since 2018, with a pause to serve time for a 2019 offense.
• He had been granted 93 unmonitored leaves from JVA Tegel starting September 2024 under a rehabilitation program.
• When the prisoner failed to return on June 8, authorities launched a search that ended when he presented himself back at the facility on June 15.
• The Senatsjustizverwaltung is conducting a thorough evaluation of the criteria and oversight for unsupervised outings.
• This incident follows other unscheduled absences from Berlin prisons over the past year, raising questions about inmate supervision standards.