Overview
- Police and prosecutors confirmed the Sunday arrest of the 37-year-old, who is now in pretrial detention on urgent suspicion of hostage-taking and dangerous bodily harm.
- According to investigators, he allegedly strangled his girlfriend on December 22, 2025, and on January 1, 2026, held and threatened her to force access to her phone, injuring her.
- Authorities say the current allegations rest primarily on the statement of his life partner.
- He was convicted in 2013 for the 2012 Maschsee killing under diminished culpability, received psychiatric commitment with a 12-year term, and experts had warned of a high risk of reoffending.
- Police previously found knives, a crossbow, and a photo of Anders Breivik in his apartment, and reporting says he purportedly assisted a right-wing party in Bremen.