Police find pregnancy test kits in flat of German loner who held woman hostage in home-made bomb-rigged torture chamber

Officers believe Thomas Fischer wanted to get Israeli captive pregnant

Video emerges of 'cold sadist' carrying fire extinguishers into apartment to turn into bombs



A man who imprisoned a woman in his home-made torture chamber rigged with eight bombs may have wanted to get his victim pregnant, it has been claimed.



Thomas Fischer, 30, turned his Hamburg flat into a terrifying lair where he had installed an old soundproofed telephone box to lock up his victim.



It has emerged that German police who arrested Fischer have since searched the loner's flat and discovered 'more than one' home pregnancy testing kit.



Evidence: Police remove the 'cell' from a window of the ground floor flat in Hamburg Bombs: A German police officer removes a hand grenade from the flat, which had been rigged with eight explosives Chilling: A newly-released video shows Fischer casually carrying fire extinguishers into his flat to turn into bombs Fischer is seen on camera going in and out of the building, carrying the fire extinguishers which he had emptied and filled with fertiliser to create the explosives

Fischer snatched a 26-year-old Israeli woman off the street last Friday and kept her as a handcuffed hostage inside the homemade 'cell' in his flat.



Although it is thought he had planned to imprison her for a number of months, the woman managed to escape after two hours when he forgot to lock the door to the torture chamber.



Having found pregnancy tests inside the apartment, officials now believe Fischer had intended to get his victim pregnant or blow her up if that was not possible.

He bought numerous gynaecological devices, surgical implements and dentistry tools which he intended to use on his victim.



Fischer also built a special cage for her - a soundproofed telephone box he stole from a street somewhere in Germany.

Officers would not reveal how many pregnancy testing kits were found in the apartment, but said it was 'more than one'.



Macabre: Fischer was arrested for keeping a woman imprisoned in his Hamburg flat and has not spoken since

'Cold sadist' Fischer had rigged his apartment with eight bombs which he created by emptying fire extinguishers and filling them with fertiliser.



Today a chilling video emerged of Fischer carrying the fire extinguishers into his Hamburg apartment.



The footage shown on the website of German newspaper Bild, shows Fischer making repeated trips in and out of the apartment building carrying the red extinguishers which he would later rig as explosives.



The fertiliser-based bombs were so volatile police had to evacuate 300 people when his flat was searched. Fischer had apparently made them using recipes he found on the internet.



Police said he and the woman knew each other after being introduced by a friend, but that there was ‘definitely no relationship’ and that Fischer had become obsessed with ‘owning’ her and stalked her.



She managed to escape his apartment by jumping from a first floor window and running away from the chasing Fischer to a friend's house before informing police, who later arrested him.



He rigged up a camera outside the door to his 88 sq ft flat so he could observe who was trying to get in and had huge planks stored in the basement designed to seal the windows.



The outside of the windows were criss-crossed with barbed wire and sealed on the inside with baking foil and clingfilm.



A hand grenade was discovered in the flat as well as fire extinguishers which had been modified to create home-made bombs .



A hand grenade was discovered in the flat as well as fire extinguishers which had been modified to create home-made bombs

A jobless gardener using the pseudonym Holger told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper he has known Fischer for three years.



He said: ‘Thommy is a complete cold sadist. I never once saw him smile.



He has no heart. This pig has plotted this crime for years.’



The man met Fischer at the Mahlzeit hostel in the Altona district, where Fischer would buy drinks for homeless people.



Chilling: Police examine the soundproofed phone box which 'sadistic' Thomas Fischer used as a torture chamber

Desperate: The woman escaped from the apartment by diving through a barbed wire-covered window

Holger went on: ‘He came every Monday wearing a military-style jacket. He drank a coffee and ogled the women. He never said a word about himself.'

Fischer has not said a single word since he was arrested.



Police are still working on the theory that he had an accomplice who helped him turn the small apartment into a torture chamber.

