Overview
- Prosecutors say the accused attacked the girl on July 14, 2025, pressing a roughly 6 cm blade to her neck, kissing and assaulting her before she wrested the knife away and fled with a hand wound that required surgery.
- Police arrested the 49-year-old in early September after a shoplifting report in North Rhine-Westphalia and linked him to the Ottobrunn knife through a forensic DNA-database match on material recovered from the weapon.
- The trial at Landgericht München I began on September 29, 2026, but judges adjourned the first main-hearing day after the defendant's original lawyer withdrew and a new counsel was appointed.
- The court postponed playing the girl's police interview to spare her in-court testimony, and the defendant faces charges of dangerous bodily harm, sexual assault with a weapon and severe sexual abuse of a child.
- Investigators found no evidence tying four separate August attacks in Ottobrunn to the defendant, and a prior psychiatric report mentioned the possible later imposition of Sicherungsverwahrung, a preventive detention measure courts may order if a convict is judged to pose an ongoing danger.