潜水艇女性記者殺害事件、受刑者を脱獄未遂で逮捕　デンマーク

【コペンハーゲンＡＦＰ＝時事】自作の潜水艇の取材に訪れた女性ジャーナリストを殺害し、終身刑が言い渡されて現在収監されているデンマーク人の発明家の男が20日、脱獄未遂で逮捕された。（写真はデンマーク・アルバーツラントで、脱獄を図って爆破装置で警察を威嚇するピーター・マッセン受刑者を監視する警察の射撃手と警察犬）
　潜水艇マニアのピーター・マッセン受刑者（４９）は、２０１７年８月に自身の潜水艇を取材した女性ジャーナリストのキム・ウォールさん（当時３０歳）を殺害したとして、１８年４月に有罪判決を受けた。
　報道によるとマッセン受刑者は、爆破装置を持っていると脅したとされる。
　また地元紙ＢＴは、同受刑者が人質を取り、刑務所の外に出すよう拳銃のようなもので職員らを脅迫したと報じた。さらに、同受刑者が白いワゴン車で逃走を図ったものの、最終的に警察に取り押さえられたという目撃者の話を伝えている。
　マッセン受刑者はウォールさん殺害事件の裁判で、被害者が死亡したのは事故だったと主張していた。しかし今年９月に放送されたドキュメンタリーで、殺害を初めて自白。「罪があるのはただ一人、それは私だ」と語っていた。
　ただ同受刑者は、ウォールさんの遺体を切断して海に遺棄したことは法廷で既に認めており、当時事件は世界中で大きく報じられた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/10/21-12:41）

The Danish man sentenced to life in jail for the murder of journalist Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine was arrested on Tuesday after a failed prison escape bid led to a standoff with police.
Police confirmed on Twitter that Madsen had been arrested and removed from the scene after being surrounded by police officers, with unconfirmed reports he had threatened them with an explosive device.
Danish tabloid BT reported Madsen had taken a hostage and threatened prison staff with a pistol-like object to force his way out of the facility.
It quoted witnesses who said he managed to drive away in a white van before police stopped him.
Another tabloid, Ekstra Bladet, reported that the hostage was a female prison psychologist. It said prison guards claimed the weapon looked real and believed the hostage's life to be in danger.
Photos from the scene showed Madsen sitting on the grass by a leafy wall next to a road a few hundred metres (yards) from the prison in a residential area, with police officers lying prone on the ground pointing their weapons at him.
- 'Pathological liar' -
Madsen, a 49-year-old submarine enthusiast, was convicted in April 2018 of murdering the 30-year-old award-wining journalist as she interviewed him on board his submarine in August 2017.
In a documentary that aired in September, he confessed for the first time to the killing, after having insisted during the trial that her death was an accident.
There is only one who is guilty, and that is me, Madsen said in the documentary.
In a case that made headlines around the world, Madsen had however admitted to the court that he chopped up her corpse and threw her body parts into the sea.
Madsen changed his version of events several times after his arrest and throughout his trial, but ultimately testified that Wall died when the air pressure suddenly dropped and toxic fumes filled his vessel while he was up on deck.
In the documentary, Madsen said however he and Wall had a discussion that shook things up, and that's what caused him to kill her.
An autopsy report presented at length during the trial concluded that Wall probably died from suffocation or having her throat slit, but the decomposed state of her body meant examiners could not determine the exact cause of death.
Fourteen stab wounds and piercings were however found in and around her genital area.
Madsen had told the court he stabbed her because he wanted to prevent gases from building up inside her torso that would prevent it from sinking to the seabed.
Psychiatric experts who evaluated Madsen for the court found him to be a pathological liar who poses a danger to others and who was likely to be a repeat offender.