The woman who set fire to the entrance to the Freiburg district court on Wednesday is in custody. The background was probably a family court procedure there.
The 41-year-old, who set fire to the entrance to the Freiburg district court on Wednesday, is now in custody. This was announced by the police and the prosecutor in a joint press release. After the woman appeared on the same day, the prosecutor’s office asked for an arrest warrant. The background to the act is likely to be a family court case pending in the district court. According to the press release, the 41-year-old Serbian-Montenegrin citizen is from the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district.
The woman poured gasoline on Wednesday afternoon and lit it. She then she ran away in the car. The police then issued a manhunt. Later that day she turned herself in to the police. The fire was quickly extinguished and only smoke and debris damage occurred. Three people were injured in the fire, two people went to a clinic suspected of smoke inhalation. According to district court spokesman Lars Petersen, such an incident has not occurred in the past twenty years. Sessions at the district court had to be suspended during the fire alarm period.
