Four masked men entered the apartment, armed with pistols, according to official sources. They beat and bound the mother, Sara, and her husband with cable ties and tape over their faces, and forced them to swallow a tablet each, which later turned out to be a narcotics-classified sleeping medication. The mother identified her ex-husband, the child's father, as one of the perpetrators in the first police interrogation, official sources said.
The ex-husband, aged around 35, had been surveilling Sara and her family for several months, including placing an AirTag in her car, and Sara and her family had been living with protected identity with her having sole custody. Police received an alarm about the break-in and kidnapping in November and used CCTV in the area to quickly identify the ex-husband and the rental car he was driving, official sources said. , with both the child and his girlfriend present.
I recognized him by his eyes.
The couple was arrested by Danish police, and flight tickets to Kuwait with a departure time of 08:35 were found, just hours after the abduction. The girlfriend claims she did not know about the plans to kidnap the child and was afraid of her boyfriend, but the police investigation shows she had several opportunities to interrupt and leave but did not do so, according to official sources. The ex-husband claims he was tricked into taking care of his daughter and that Sara's new husband arranged for her to be handed over to him, official sources said.