Overview
- A 32-year-old threatened a 60-year-old cashier with an axe in a Chemnitz supermarket on Saturday, leaving her in shock.
- Police said the man first posed as a customer by placing a bottle on the belt, then pulled the weapon when the register opened.
- He grabbed €255 from the till and tried to flee, but customers wrestled with him and the cash was lost in the struggle.
- Officers arrived and arrested the suspect, who remains in provisional custody at a local station.
- Police and prosecutors have opened a serious-robbery investigation into the case.