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More than 20 years after the breakout of a convicted murderer and felon from North Rhine-Westphalia in Portugal, a worldwide public manhunt has begun.
The search call for Norman Volker Franz, who is wanted for fivefold murder, is to be shared on the social media channels of 194 countries, as the North Rhine-Westphalian State Criminal Police Office said on Tuesday.
For the first time a manhunt from North Rhine-Westphalia lands on the Europol website “Europe's Most Wanted”.
Franz was sentenced to life imprisonment for double homicide in 1996.
A year later he managed to escape from the Hagen correctional facility.
The Federal Criminal Police Office created this mug shot of the fugitive Norman Volker Franz.
He has been searched for for 22 years
Source: dpa / Federal Criminal Police Office
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The man is suspected of having committed robberies in Halle and Weimar and shooting three people after his escape.
In 1998, Franz was arrested in Albufeira, Portugal, where he lived with his wife and child after his first escape.
A year later he managed his second escape from the central prison in Lisbon.