The man who has hit an eight-year-old boy in front of a train at Frankfurt Central Station comes to a psychiatric hospital. The magistrate had converted the arrest warrant issued at the end of July against Habte A. into an accommodation order, a spokeswoman for the prosecution said.
According to a psychiatric expert, the 40-year-old suffers from a disease from the "schizophrenic spectrum". The investigation on suspicion of murder and attempted murder continued independently.
The accused comes from Eritrea and lived years in Switzerland. At the end of July, he had struck an eight-year-old at Frankfurt Central Station and his mother in front of an arriving ICE. The mother was able to roll and survived, the child died. The man also tried to push another woman on the tracks, but he did not succeed.
According to prosecutors, the expert assumes that the man suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. This illness had been acute at the time of the crime - and was also causal for his actions. Therefore, it should be assumed that there is a reduced ability to see things. The placement in a psychiatric hospital is necessary because the man represents a danger to the general public.
