DANISH MAN PERSONAL SUBMARINE DRIVER

What happened to the hostage is not clear, but Madsen was surrounded on the roadside grass after allegedly telling officers he was wearing an explosive device.

DANISH MAN PERSONAL SUBMARINE DRIVER

We guess it was a dummy,' he told BT.Īt a press conference this afternoon, police said Madsen had then jumped into a white van and forced the person behind the wheel to drive for around five minutes before officers caught up with him.ĭetectives have so far struggled to question the driver because he speaks little Danish, but he is not suspected of plotting with Madsen, police said. 'It was very violent and the staff therefore choose to back off. Prison official Bo Yde Sorensen said Madsen was 'armed with a pistol-like object' and said guards were right to lock him out of the jail because there was an 'obvious risk to life'. Madsen escaped from the prison by using an object that 'looked like a pistol' to convince guards that the psychologist's life was in danger.

“That means some of them are likely there to shed light on surrounding factors, I would assume to try to prove the murder was planned.Danish inventor Peter Madsen (left) was jailed in 2018 for the gory murder of journalist Kim Wall (right) on his submarine in a Copenhagen harbour “It seems unusual to call that many witnesses in this case since they obviously were not present at the scene of the crime,” says Lasse Lund Madsen, professor of criminal law at Aarhus University, and former special prosecutor and acting judge. If Madsen has a dark side, it is likely to be one of the points explored by prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen during the trial, at which some 37 witnesses are expected to take the stand. His attorney, Betina Hald Engmark, has said it cannot be excluded that it was an accident and that Madsen did act in a state of panic. He maintains that Wall died by accident, saying he dismembered her body and tossed it in the sea in a state of panic. Madsen has consistently denied the allegations of murder and sexual assault and any knowledge of the films. LISELOTTE SABROE/AFP/AFP/Getty Imagesįor his part, Madsen changed his explanation several times as more body parts and evidence emerged.Īmongst other things, police found films showing torture and real-life executions of women on his computer. He was a nice guy who really liked to show off his projects.”ĭanish Defense Command divers prepare for a dive near Copenhagen after the discovery of what turned out to be Wall's torso last August. “I didn’t believe it because I knew him a little bit. I was shocked, I still am,” said Tomas Trolle, who helped Madsen with some of his rocket projects. To them, Peter Madsen, or “Rocket-Madsen,” was a well-documented character, portrayed in books, articles, documentary films, even on Danish children’s programs, as an eccentric but visionary inventor with a strong passion for ocean and space travel. While Sweden seemed immediately besieged by grief at the loss of one of its own, Denmark seemed caught in shock and disbelief. The alleged murder has rocked the peaceful Danish archipelago and its Swedish neighbor to the core – albeit in different ways. The charges include premeditated murder, indecent handling of a corpse and “sexual relations other than intercourse of a particularly dangerous nature,” citing stab wounds inside and outside her genital area. Instead, according to the indictment, Madsen cut and stabbed Wall multiple times before killing her, cutting off her head, arms and legs, then weighing her body parts down with plastic cable-ties and pipes before throwing them into the sea. The indictment states that Madsen, 47, planned and prepared Wall’s murder, bringing a saw, a knife, sharpened screwdrivers and other items to his submarine where he had supposedly invited her to do a story. Madsen pictured inside his submarine in April 2008.

Danish man personal submarine