The man claims to have mistaken the child for one of his grandchildren and therefore brought him into his apartment. The man said this to the police in Germany, a spokesman for the Cologne public prosecutor’s office said on Monday.Cologne. “The accused told the police that he noticed the girl outside his apartment door on the evening of May 10th and thought she was one of his grandchildren, which is why he took the child into the apartment,” he said. Whether this information is “comprehensible” or not is still the subject of ongoing investigations.
The three-year-old from Kassel, who had been visiting relatives in Cologne with her parents, disappeared on Friday evening in a Cologne park in the Kalk district. Investigators reported that she was traveling with her aunt when she lost sight of her niece. The park was “very well filled” at the time.
No resistance offered
The police then searched for the girl with a large contingent. As part of the search operation, residents were also rung to question them and get information. The child was finally found in the 70-year-old’s apartment in an apartment building not far from the park – more than twelve hours following his disappearance. The man did not resist his arrest, the public prosecutor’s office said at the weekend.
According to the investigators, there was no concrete evidence of a physical attack, even following a medical examination of the child. The 70-year-old, who was temporarily arrested, was released on Sunday. How the girl got into the apartment and how long she stayed there was initially unclear. According to the findings, there is no family relationship, said the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office. Witnesses would continue to be questioned in the case.
