A prisoner who escaped on Thursday in Baden, canton Aargau, is still on the run. The 23-year-old Albanian, who was in custody for burglary, was wearing handcuffs when he escaped. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Aargau cantonal police announced on Tuesday that a large-scale search had been conducted for the man in warehouses. By nightfall, the search in the extensive, partly impassable forest area, which lasted several hours, had to be cancelled without success. Intensive investigations are still underway to locate the wanted man and take him back into custody. The fact that he was still wandering around the region in handcuffs, at least on Friday, suggests that he was not following a plan when he fled, the cantonal police deduced. He appears to have neither a place of reference nor contacts, they said. He also had no permanent residence in Switzerland. After five days on the run, the prisoner must have tried to get rid of his handcuffs and find ...
