Overview
- Spanish police arrested the 32-year-old Moroccan in Barcelona on February 3rd after Bavarian investigators traced him to Spain.
- LKA officers brought him back to Bayreuth on March 10, and authorities deported him to Morocco on March 17.
- He had escaped on October 31, 2025 during a supervised group outing at the Rotmain-Center mall in Bayreuth.
- The man had been placed in a secure psychiatric hospital after a final 2022 conviction for a sexual offense with a five-and-a-half-year sentence.
- Prosecutors obtained a European Arrest Warrant, a tool that lets EU police detain fugitives across borders and return them to the requesting country.