Public prosecutors said they had identified the man who kicked a 26-year-old woman down a flight of stairs at a Berlin U-Bahn station.
Tagesspiegel further cited security sources who said it could not be ruled out that releasing the video may have contributed to the main suspect’s decision to leave Germany.
But Steltner told the newspaper that there was still hope that officials would be able to arrest the perpetrator.
A similar attack was reported in Munich days after the video was released. There, a woman reported being kicked woman down an escalator in an U-Bahn station on Saturday and having her purse snatched by three men. Police are still searching for the culprits.