Overview

• Witnesses reported a crying child alone in a red Daihatsu around 16:30 on Friday at the Lidl lot on Rahel-Varnhagen-Weg in Neuallermöhe/Allermöhe.
• Shoppers alerted emergency services and had the mother paged in the store as firefighters and police headed to the scene.
• Responders did not need to force entry because the mother returned to the vehicle, and the child was standing beside the car.
• Police took the mother's details, informed the Jugendamt, and will file reports; witnesses said the mother drove off with the toddler while the grandmother walked home with two other children due to a single car seat.
• A police spokesperson noted that vehicles can heat up rapidly even in autumn conditions, underscoring the risk to young children in parked cars.