Stalker arrested at Angela Merkel's house

A man in his forties is being treated in a psychiatric hospital in Germany for stalking Chancellor Angela Merkel with love letters and trying to get into her homes.

When police arrested him outside her country house near Berlin he said he wanted to know why she had not replied to his letters.

The man embarrassed Mrs Merkels security guards at her weekend home in near the town of Templin by managing to reach the front door unchallenged and ring the bell. He also once managed to get to the doorstep of Mrs Merkel's Berlin flat when her husband was home, but left before police arrived.

He was said to be "furious" that his letters to Mrs Merkel went unanswered. Security around the Chancellor has been intensified.

A public prosecutor must decide whether it is safe to release the man back into public.