In May 2021, a former headmaster from Saxony was convicted of serious child sexual abuse. He had been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for abusing a 13-year-old student in the school library. However, prior to this incident, schoolgirls had made similar allegations in 2016 and 2018. The proceedings were discontinued due to lack of evidence but the case was reopened after the last incident.
The man fled abroad following his conviction and was arrested in Cambodia more than a year later at the beginning of March. He has been in custody in Dresden for three and a half weeks, as announced by the police in Görlitz. Investigators uncovered flight bookings to Cambodia and information that he had opened a guesthouse there. Unable to extradite him from Cambodia to Germany, investigators found an alternative solution when his visa expired. He was arrested by local police on March 6th and subsequently flown to Bangkok in Thailand where officers from the Saxony State Criminal Police Office and the Görlitz Police Department took custody of him.
