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Inventor Peter Madsen was found guilty of the murder of journalist Kim Wall, now the 49-year-old tried to escape. Despite the bomb threat, it didn’t get very far.
Danish inventor and convicted murderer Peter Madsen attempted to escape from prison, but apparently failed quickly. On Tuesday, media showed a man sitting in front of a fence a few hundred meters from the detention center, while policemen sprawled on the ground with weapons in hand watched him closely.
The area was cordoned off in a large area, and a bus made sure spectators were blocked. Police initially only wrote on Twitter that a man had been arrested after trying to escape in Albertslund, west of Copenhagen. At lunchtime, he added that he had been expelled from the place of detention. Police had confirmed at this time that it was the 49-year-old “submarine killer”.
It is unclear why the police did not initially arrest Madsen. The Ekstra Bladet newspaper and other Danish outlets reported that bomb experts were on the scene: Madsen had escaped from prison with the threat of carrying a bomb or a gun-like object.
Mord im U-Boot
Madsen was sentenced to life in prison in 2018 for the murder of young journalist Kim Wall in a submarine he had built. According to the verdict, she killed the 30-year-old Swede inside the submarine in August 2017. The court found it proven that he had sexually tortured her and thrown her overboard after her death.
Madsen did not admit to the murder, but did admit that Wall was killed in an accident aboard the submarine. Little by little he changed his statements and finally declared that he had dismembered the body and thrown it into the water.
Wall had planned to write a report on Madsen, his submarine “Nautilus” and his rocket experiments. She was last seen on the night of August 10, 2017, when she left the port of Copenhagen aboard the submarine. Later, parts of his body were found near Køgebucht, south of the Danish capital.
A television documentary on Madsen recently sparked discussions in Denmark. It is said that he first confessed to the murder in Wall in a secretly recorded telephone interview, which has not been confirmed by the official side.
(WHAT / dpa)
