The police are yet to contact the German man whose three-year-old son was almost abducted on Saturday when his Maltese partner was assaulted with a stun gun.

Last year, the child had been abducted by his German mother – Petra Nemet – who is suspected to be one of two women who tried to kidnap him outside his father’s Żabbar home.

The police said that, until yesterday afternoon, no arrests had been made.

“The boy needs to be able to go to school or to the park without worrying about the risks. Unless the situation is tackled, he will not be able to lead a normal life,” said his father, Nico Leonhardt.

The assault at Żabbar was captured on CCTV and footage showed the Maltese woman stop her car and get the child from the back seat. The boy was standing outside the house’s gate when, suddenly, a dark-coloured car pulls up and two women rush out.

The Maltese woman promptly grabs the child and runs, chased by the two women. The woman holding the stun gun was identified by the victim to be Ms Nemet.

The two women ran away when a relative, who lived next door, intervened.

Mr Leonhardt said he filed a police report soon after the case happened. Later that night – after taking his partner and son to the Paola police station and to Mater Dei Hospital – he went back to the Żabbar police station to drop off CCTV footage and other documents.

On Sunday, the couple went abroad for the day but the police did not contact them despite the fact that they were reachable, Mr Leonhardt said. He added that, after reading in this newspaper yesterday that the police would be contacting him and his partner, he waited for the call which, however, until the afternoon had not arrived.

He said he contacted a police officer he knew but the officer could not help because he was not involved in the investigations.

Mr Leonhardt was granted care and custody of the child by the Maltese courts in May 2013. In his court application, he had noted that he and Ms Nemet moved to Malta in April 2010 and had a baby in May 2011. Towards the end of 2012, Ms Nemet moved out of their home with the child without informing him. He said he was worried about his son’s well-being due to Ms Nemet’s “psychological state”.

Mr Leonhardt also filed a child abduction report. Last December, Ms Nemet was arrested by the Polish police on the Ukrainian border. Court proceedings started in Poland in terms of the Hague Convention on child abduction and the court ordered that the boy be returned to Malta, which occurred in March.

In May, Ms Nemet was arrested outside the couple’s home over claims she harassed Mr Leonhardt’s partner.