The murderer who fled from a court in Regensburg has been arrested in France.
The 40-year-old Rachid C. was caught near the German border, said the Oberpfalz police headquarters on Monday evening.
C. escaped from the window of a lawyer's room on the ground floor of the Regensburg district court on Thursday afternoon.
The convicted murderer and an accomplice attacked a lottery shop in Nuremberg in 2011 and killed the 76-year-old owner.
In 2013 he was sentenced to life imprisonment and has been in prison in Straubing ever since.
Because of resistance against enforcement officials in the JVA, he now had to answer before the district court of Regensburg.
When the hearing was adjourned for a meeting with his lawyer on Thursday, the man managed to escape from the lawyer's room on the first floor of the court.