A woman who was jailed in Germany for abducting her daughter is wanted in Malta for a separate child abduction attempt and for causing grievous bodily harm, the police have confirmed.

Last month, Claudia Krolik was sentenced to 30 months in prison in Berlin.

The criminal courts there had told the media that the accused was believed to have moved outside of Germany in April 2014 with her then five-year-old daughter, even though the father had custody of the child.

In 2015, she was with her daughter in Malta and sometime later, they both moved to Thailand, where the mother was found in July of this year and deported to Germany.

The women hit her with a taser on her side and face

In 2015, Ms Krolik was wanted in Malta for investigation and arraignment in court, but it was only earlier this month that the Maltese police told the Times of Malta a European arrest warrant had been issued against her.

On Friday, a spokeswoman for the police said she will be charged for causing grievous bodily harm to a third party and attempting, with another person, to abduct a three-year-old boy. The latter incident happened on November 15, 2014, in Żabbar.

CCTV footage shows that on that day the boy was standing outside the gate of the house where he lived with his father when two women ran out of a car that had just pulled up.

His father’s partner, a Maltese woman, grabbed hold of the child and ran off.

She later said that the two women, who had given chase, hit her with a taser on her side and face. She noted that she had lost her eyesight for a few minutes.