Overview
- Italian authorities detained the 20-year-old who fled Psychiatric Centre Reichenau near Konstanz at the end of November, according to German police.
- He had been ordered into psychiatric custody after a life-threatening knife attack on a roommate in an asylum accommodation in Trossingen.
- Prosecutors previously determined he was not criminally responsible because of a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
- The escape occurred during a supervised outing, prompting a public manhunt that lasted nearly three weeks.
- Police say an extradition procedure is being pursued to return him from Italy, and they have not disclosed whether any offenses occurred during his time on the run.