Overview
- Police issued a public witness appeal for a silver car with Bonn plates seen turning near the Coptic Orthodox monastery in Waldsolms around 18:30 on Sunday.
- Investigators also requested reports of suspicious activity along the A45 between Kreuz Olpe-Süd and Freudenberg from Sunday to early Monday.
- Forensic analysis linked two severed hands found overnight into Monday on the A45 to a 32-year-old Eritrean woman registered at an asylum accommodation in Bonn.
- The woman’s three-month-old baby was found unharmed outside the monastery on Sunday and is now in official custody, while the mother remains missing.
- Media citing security sources report a police search for the child’s father as detectives examine the roughly 90-kilometre distance and six-hour gap between the two locations.