Overview
- Police arrested the 35-year-old at his Mühlheim apartment on Wednesday after inquiries increasingly focused on him.
- A judge at the Offenbach district court issued an arrest warrant and ordered preventive detention at the request of prosecutors.
- The few-months-old child was flown to hospital by rescue helicopter last Thursday and remains in intensive care, according to police.
- Doctors documented substantial injuries that authorities say are consistent with physical violence.
- Darmstadt prosecutors and the South-East Hesse police are leading the developing investigation, which has not disclosed background or motive.