The search for the mother from Hamburg, who is said to have taken her two children from a child protection facility without permission, has ended. "After receiving the decisive information, the 35-year-old was able to

The police had been looking for the woman since Wednesday, and later also for the 24-year-old father from Bottrop in North Rhine-Westphalia. The 35-year-old mother is said to have taken her two- and three-year-old children with her from a children's shelter without permission on Wednesday in Hamburg during a visit with her father, who lives separately from her, the police said.

The investigators had assumed that the mother could be in an exceptional psychological situation. A danger to the children cannot be ruled out. The two small children were in the child protection facility because the mother allegedly wanted to kill herself in the presence of the children. In this regard, criminal investigations against them had been announced.

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