The police are looking for four criminals who broke out of a psychiatric ward in the Heilbronn district. The authorities warned that the fugitives could be armed.
Weinsberg – Four offenders fled a closed ward of a clinic in Weinsberg near Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg on Thursday night.
The four men are considered dangerous and may be armed, the police said. According to the information they were in prison. The authorities warned against hitchhiking someone. Witnesses are asked to report suspicious persons to the police via the emergency number 110.
For reasons of tactical investigations, the authorities initially did not want to provide further information about the four offenders and the question of how the escape took place during the night. The penal system is about the accommodation of mentally ill or addicts offenders. The aim is to ensure the protection of the population and therapy for patients.
The Klinikum am Weissenhof – Center for Psychiatry Weinsberg is an academic teaching hospital of the University of Heidelberg. It is under the supervision of the state of Baden-Württemberg and offers psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic treatment and care for mentally ill people in the Heilbronn region.
In 2015, a 60-year-old patient was killed in the penal system in Weinsberg. At that time, the suspicion was directed against the man’s roommate. The 34-year-old suspect hanged himself when the case was heard before the Heilbronn district court. dpa
