Overview

• Police used Europa-Park’s surveillance footage and a civilian witness to identify the suspect after initially pursuing other leads.
• Investigators executed a search warrant at the suspect’s apartment, seizing clothing believed to be worn during the incident and noting his passport was missing.
• The six-year-old victim was found two hours after disappearing from Rulantica, roughly five kilometres away in Kappel-Grafenhausen; she was wearing swimwear and slippers and was largely physically unharmed but likely traumatised.
• Authorities coordinated cross-border efforts with Romanian law enforcement under an international arrest warrant issued by the Amtsgericht Freiburg.
• Kriminalpolizei Offenburg is appealing to witnesses who were in the area between approximately 20:20 and 22:20 on 9 August to contact its tip line.