Overview
- The 34-year-old Algerian, sentenced in 2023 to eight years, fled Friday from the St.-Georg forensic psychiatric unit in Leipzig during yard time by climbing a fence.
- Police place the escape between 10:40 and 12:30, and extensive searches have not located him.
- The Leipzig public prosecutor authorized a public search order on Sunday, leading police to publish a description and a danger notice.
- Authorities urge the public to call 110 with sightings and describe him as 1.72 meters tall, athletic, with short black spiky hair, a tattoo on his right hand, and sportswear last seen Friday.
- BILD reports a nearly two-hour delay in staff noticing the absence and a possible lead toward the Berlin area, which officials have not confirmed.