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The police arrested the multiple car thief (symbolic image)
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At an intersection in Erfurt, a 37-year-old is said to have forced a woman and her son to get out of their car.
While escaping by car, he threw tools at police officers and smashed a balcony door.
The 37-year-old suspect was finally arrested, the police said.
He was under drugs.
The man is also accused of other crimes: He is said to have broken into a car repair shop in Erfurt at the weekend, stolen a car and broken through a gate.
He then got out of this vehicle at an intersection to steal the car of the driver who was driving with her twelve-year-old son.
In Elxleben (Sömmerda district) he then tried to steal several vans.
He then fled.
The man was found and arrested during a search that also involved the use of a helicopter and a sniffer dog.
The resulting material damage amounts to a total of more than 40,000 euros.
jpa/dpa