Motives still unclear as hunt for 'Black Forest Rambo' enters sixth day
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from on (#55TZE)
Germany gripped by search for Yves Rausch, who family say disarmed police in moment of panic
A Black Forest Rambo" at war with modern society, a sensitive" soul traumatised by previous brushes with the law, or simply a rebel without a cause: as police comb the woodlands of south-west Germany for a sixth day, the motives of an armed 31-year-old at the centre of the large-scale manhunt remain unclear.
The man, named by police as Yves Rausch, has been on the run since last Sunday morning, after holding up four officers and stealing their firearms in what his mother claims was a moment of panic".
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