Overview
- The man allegedly forced his way into his former partner’s home in Hartmannsdorf during a custody dispute and seized their six-year-old child.
- Officers pursued the fleeing BMW onto the A72 toward Leipzig with aerial tracking from a Bundespolizei helicopter and ground units from Chemnitz and Leipzig.
- The driver executed a U-turn at the Rötha junction in a construction zone and continued back toward Chemnitz.
- Police stopped the vehicle at the Hartmannsdorf junction after the suspect reversed into a patrol car; he was arrested and the child was returned unharmed to the mother.
- A Chemnitz investigating judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered pretrial detention, and police identified the 42-year-old as a Ukrainian.