In the Swiss city of Benglen, a man living inside an asylum home was photographed fleeing a family home through a window. The man had entered the 25-year-old daughter’s room and is believed to have stalked the younger daughter earlier in the evening. The police have already released the man, saying they cannot detain him.
The story first began circulating on WhatsApp, and dates back to Oct. 13, when a man dressed all in black gained access to a single-family home in Benglen. It happened to be the daughter’s room, who had just been in the room but was in the bathroom at the time.
The mother, 62-year-old Adrianna, was in the kitchen when he heard noise coming from the daughter’s room. The mother went to check upstairs and saw the suspect inside.
“Knowing that my daughter (Petra) was in the bathroom, I went to check – and saw a strange man standing in her room. I yelled at him, whereupon he immediately fled and climbed out the window again. I managed to take a photo of the man. He ran away towards the woods,” said Adrianna.
The mother, however, had the presence of mind to take a photo of the suspect before he fled out of the window.
Speaking with Blick, Adrianna told the paper: “Someone who enters a brightly lit bedroom at half past eight in the evening is ready for anything, ready to rape or even ready to kill.”
Earlier encounter?
However, the Blick article reveals that the daughter may have actually been targeted.
Just hours before, the same man had struck terror in another family member, when the 23-year-old sister, Elisa, was out with her dog on her usual route.
“A man sat on the bench on a hill next to the table tennis table,” said Elisa. When she walked past, the man kept shouting and following her, saying, “Hello.”
Elisa then changed her route and returned to her home through a detour to lose the man.
An hour and a half later, the same man allegedly entered into the other daughter’s window.
The sister, Elisa, immediately recognized the man as the same one who followed her in the park earlier from the mother’s photo. The police were informed about both incidents.
Police secured forensics at the scene and the man was arrested the same evening. Although he lives at an asylum home, the man apparently has Swiss citizenship.
“The exact circumstances and motive are the subject of the ongoing investigation,” the police told Blick. “According to the investigators, it was not an attempted theft, but there was suspicion of another motive. However, after questioning, the man was released from custody because further detention was not legally possible.”
Remarkably, despite the man being accused of stalking and sneaking into a young woman’s window, the police say he has been released.
“The man was released after questioning,” the police told Blick.
The suspect is a 35-year-old Swiss man who lives in an asylum home. However, he appears to be a welfare recipient who is living at an individual room inside the asylum home, which is possible for individuals on welfare even if they are not asylum seekers.
