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Tuesday 20 October 2020
Big alarm near Copenhagen. A man tries to escape from prison. He is perhaps the most famous cell inmate in the country: submarine builder Peter Madsen, who was convicted of the murder of a journalist. It is said that he threatened him with a bomb.
Danish inventor and convicted murderer Peter Madsen has tried to escape from prison, but apparently quickly failed. Danish and Scandinavian media recordings showed a man sitting in front of a fence a few hundred meters from the Madsen detention center, while police officers sprawled on the ground watched him closely with weapons in hand. .
The area was cordoned off and a bus headed to the site to block the view. 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. Shortly before, the police had confirmed to the Danish radio station DR that it was Madsen, 49 years old.
It is unclear why the police did not initially arrest Madsen. The newspaper “Ekstra Bladet” and other Danish media reported that bomb experts had been at the scene: Madsen had escaped from prison with the threat of carrying a bomb or a gun-like object.
Controversial confession
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.
