A German woman, suspected of trying to abduct her three-year-old son last week, will be subject to a European arrest warrant, Times of Malta has learnt.

The woman had left Malta just hours after assaulting another woman with a taser gun during the attempted kidnapping.

The woman, Petra Nemet, has also been placed on Malta’s wanted list as well as on the national “stop list” so that she will be stopped at any point of entry or exit on the island.

The Maltese police are in the process of issuing a European arrest warrant.

Read more in Times of Malta.

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