The warrant was issued on Sunday evening at the request of the Kraków regional prosecution service, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Polish prosecutors had charged the Norwegian man, identified as Ingebrigt G., with killing his ex-partner, a 26-year-old woman from the southern Polish city of Oświęcim, and abducting their child, five-year-old Mia, asking the court to arrest the suspect for 14 days, officials said.
Janusz Hnatko, a spokesman for Kraków prosecutors, told reporters: “The EAW will make it possible to launch the procedure of extraditing Ingerbright G. from Denmark to Poland. Theoretically the Danish court should order the expulsion of the man within 60 days.”
Ingerbrigt G. has been detained by the Danish police and is awaiting the court ruling on extradition; as per standard procedure, the Norwegian embassy has offered him legal support, the PAP news agency reported.
Meanwhile, five-year-old Mia was in the care of Denmark’s social services; her Polish grandfather, to whom the district court in Oświęcim has granted temporary custody of the child, has travelled to Denmark to collect her, according to officials.
Murder and child abduction in Oświęcim
The 26-year-old woman was found dead in her flat in Oświęcim by her father on Saturday afternoon, officials said.
She had cuts and stab wounds to her neck, and a bloodied knife was found at the scene, reporters were told.
Neither the woman’s daughter nor Ingebrigt G. were present in the flat.
After Poland’s police were alerted at around 5 p.m., a Europe-wide search for the man, now suspected of murder and abduction of the child, was called, leading to the arrest of Ingebrigt G. in Copenhagen, Denmark, at 10 p.m. on Saturday evening.
The man was driving his Volkswagen car along a motorway, with his 5-year-old daughter in the back seat, according to Danish police.
The woman is reported to have been living in Poland with her daughter for the past three years; Ingerbright G., her ex-partner and the girl’s father, had been in contact with them.
In late October, he came to Oświęcim to live with his former partner and their child, accompanied by his mother, who has returned to Norway in the meantime, officials said.
"The murder was likely motivated by issues to do with the custody of the child," the spokesman for Kraków prosecutors told the PAP news agency.
He added that Ingebrigt G., Mia’s biological father, had limited parental rights.
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Source: PAP, interia.pl