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Man leaps with son, 5, from third-floor window

A father and his young son are in serious condition after police and firefighters were called to their home in northeast Berlin early on Wednesday morning.

Man leaps with son, 5, from third-floor window
Schönhauser Allee in Berlin. Photo: DPA

Neighbours called the emergency services when the saw the 38-year-old and the boy lying in the courtyard of their building on Schönhauser Allee in Prenzlauer Berg.

Both father and son were seriously injured and had to be taken to hospital, although their fall was broken by a canopy below the window.

Police found the man's girlfriend, who is not the mother of the boy, in a state of shock when they entered his apartment.

Tagesspiegel reported that the family had been under supervision by the youth welfare service (Jugendamt) after the man climbed onto the roof of the nearby Colosseum cinema with his son in February.

That time police called to the scene were able to persuade him to come down and nobody was hurt.

The man was later charged with crimes under parenting laws and the youth welfare office became involved, taking the child into foster care.

The man dropped out of sight of the authorities after returning to his homeland, Israel, and did not inform either the police or the youth welfare office of his return to Berlin.

Christine Keil, the local councillor responsible for youth issues, said the incident was the first the authorities knew of his return to Berlin.

State murder police have taken over the investigation.

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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