German Car-Ramming Suspect Had Mental Health Problems: Reports
Authorities say the suspect acted alone and lacked a political or religious motive, while more than 80 people received care for psychological distress.
- On Monday, a 33-year-old German man drove a Volkswagen SUV through a pedestrian zone in Leipzig's historic center, killing a 63-year-old woman and 77-year-old man while injuring three others seriously.
- According to reports from Bild and MDR, the suspect had been discharged from a psychiatric clinic at the end of April and was asked to leave a facility on Sunday due to aggressive behavior toward other patients.
- Police identified the two victims as German citizens and cordoned off the street on Tuesday morning to search the area where the vehicle sped through the pedestrian zone.
- Interior Minister Armin Schuster of Saxony stated investigators believe the suspect acted alone, noting that rage and psychological instability are often factors in such cases. Mayor Burkhard Jung laid a wreath at a makeshift memorial on Tuesday.
- Germany has witnessed a series of car-ramming and stabbing incidents in recent years, including fatal attacks in Mannheim, Munich, Magdeburg, and Solingen involving various motivations and circumstances.
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After the amok drive, the perpetrator comes to a psychiatric hospital for the time being. He is accused of double murder as well as attempted murder.
The amok driver of Leipzig has to go to the psychiatry. An investigating judge ordered the 33-year-old to stay temporarily in a corresponding hospital, as the public prosecutor's office in Leipzig reported. There are "pervasive reasons" for the fact that the accused had committed the crime with two dead and numerous injured "in the state of at least considerably reduced guilt".
The 33-year-old man, accused of driving into a crowd in the center of Leipzig, after which two people died and six others were injured, two of whom were seriously injured, appeared before the German court, and one judge determined that there were "founded grounds for a possible significant decrease in discernment and the risk of recurrence," writes Deutsche Welle. Thus, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital.
After the amok trip in Leipzig with two dead and several injured, the perpetrator is admitted to the psychiatry. In the city people thought the following day at memorial events of the victims.[more]]>
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