Peter Madsen Arrested By Police After Escape Attempt – NRK Urix – Foreign News & Documentaries

Police announced at 1 p.m. Tuesday that Madsen had been arrested and driven away. The escape attempt sparked a large-scale police operation in Danish Albertsund, on the outskirts of Copenhagen.

At 10:21 we received an alarm from Herstedsvester Prison that Peter Madsen has left.

At 10:26, the police managed to arrest him not far from the scene, says police inspector Mogens Lauridsen at the Copenhagen police.

Madsen was only on the run for five minutes, the police inspector told a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

According to police, Madsen took a hostage with him when he escaped from prison.

The president of the Prison Association, Bo Yde Sørensen, tells BT newspaper that Madsen took a prison employee hostage.

– He used it as a shield to threaten the staff to open the door. It was very violent, so the staff decided to withdraw. We assume it was a mannequin, says Sørensen.

Madsen is said to have threatened to kill the woman.

Hanne Høegh Rasmussen, director of Herstedvester’s prison department, says none of the prison employees have been physically injured. But it has been a very mentally stressful situation for the employees.

Rasmussen says prison security will now be investigated and it will be considered whether security measures should be strengthened.

Police Inspector Mogens Lauridsen says Madsen was arrested when he jumped into a white van. There was a person in the car, but there is no indication that the man in the car was involved in the leak.

Surrounded by snipers

Madsen threatened to get out of prison with a fake bomb and an imitation gun that he had made himself.

Lauridsen says there is nothing to indicate that there were explosives in the bomb-like object.

Several Danish outlets also reported that Madsen, 49, allegedly threatened police with a bomb-like object during the escape attempt.

The inventor convicted of murder was eventually surrounded by large police forces.

Dog patrols and the police bomb squad were in place to try to control the situation. The bomb squad also had its own remote-controlled bombing robot, which is used to neutralize explosives.

– worrying

Peter Madsen’s attorney, Betina Hald Engmark, told BT early Tuesday that she was unfamiliar with the case. When NRK tried to call Engmark at a quarter to twelve, the call went to an answering machine.

The Danish media write that Madsen has been held in solitary confinement on several occasions because prison staff suspected escape plans.

Danish forensic psychiatrist Henrik Day Poulsen describes Madsen as dangerous and says it is worrying that he managed to escape.

– He is a talented man, but also an incredibly dangerous man. This is a man who has committed one of the most brutal murders in the history of Denmark.

“Precisely because he can use his talent for something dangerous, it’s very worrying that you don’t take better care of him,” Poulsen told BT.

The 49-year-old was sentenced in 2018 to the harshest punishment in the law, life imprisonment, for murder, mutilation and sexual abuse by Swedish journalist Kim Wall.

The verdict was unanimous, but Madsen appealed on the spot. The verdict in the appeal case was the same as that received in the Copenhagen Municipal Court.