A woman suspected of having helped another German woman try to kidnap her son in Malta, will start facing charges of child abduction, today.

Claudia Krolik faces trial that will kick off this morning before the Magistrates Court of Berlin.

The criminal courts told the media that the accused is said to have moved abroad in April 2014 with her then five-year-old daughter from Berlin, even though the father had custody of the child.

Around May of 2015, the defendant was with her daughter in Malta and sometime later they both moved to Thailand, where the mother was found in July this year and subsequently deported to Germany. The child has been handed over to her father.

The mother was arrested after she turned up with a TV crew to see her son

In 2015, Ms Krolik was wanted by the Malta Police to be investigated and arraigned in court in connection with an incident that had happened the previous November in Żabbar. On that day, Ms Krolik allegedly helped another German woman, Petra Nemet, try to abduct her three-year-old son from Żabbar, where he lived with his father who has sole custody.

The incident, which was captured on CCTV, shows the boy standing outside the main gate when a dark car pulls up nearby and two women run out.

Mr Leonhardt’s partner, a Maltese woman, grabs hold of the child and runs while the other two women give chase.

Ms Nemet, who was allegedly holding a taser gun at the time, had abducted the boy in 2013.

The Maltese woman later told this newspaper that she was hit by the taser on her side and face but continued to hold on to the child while the women beat her.

She noted that she had lost her eyesight for a few minutes.

The CCTV system that caught the incident was installed by the family in May amid fears for the child’s abduction.

That same May, The Sunday Times of Malta reported that Ms Nemet was arrested in Żabbar after she turned up with a television crew to see her son.

Police arrested Ms Nemet over claims she harassed the father's partner.

Last year, the father desperately seeking information regarding the whereabouts of his seven-year-old daughter, came to Malta claiming she had been abducted in Germany by her mother, Ms Krolik.

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