Perpetrators of Leipzig airport runway closure surrender to police

Two men appealed to law enforcement after the car broke through the fence of Leipzig/Halle airport. This is reported by Der Spiegel with reference to the police.

The men, aged 20 and 32, appeared with lawyers at the Leipzig prosecutor's office and criminal police on the evening of October 18. The youngest of them through the defender reported that he lost control of the car near the airport and broke the fence. After that, he left the scene and the car was evacuated on a private order. Investigators found her on the territory of the car trading company.

According to police, the 20-year-old man does not have a valid driver's license. Law enforcement officers searched him, his belongings and his apartment. The judge also ordered the car to be seized and searched. The second man called himself the owner of the car, but gave no other testimony.

Damage to the fence was found at about 23:00 on October 17. After that, the northern runway of the airport was closed, and the territory was examined by federal and state police. They found no strangers or suspicious objects. Initially, law enforcement officers did not exclude that the cause of the incident could be an accident.

The schedule of reception and release of the aircraft did not affect the incident.