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Defendant Muharrem D. at a court hearing in Munich in early March
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At the start of the trial at the beginning of March, the defendant Muharrem D. had already comprehensively conceded a series of attacks in Waldkraiburg in Upper Bavaria.
Now, according to a decision by the Munich Higher Regional Court, the man is to be placed in psychiatry.
This was announced by a spokesman.
The court had already pointed out at the beginning of the trial in early March that a possible mental illness of the 26-year-old and the placement in a clinic was in the room.
The federal prosecutor's office blames the Germans of Kurdish descent, among other things, for several attacks on Turkish shops in the multicultural, Upper Bavarian Waldkraiburg.
Accordingly, he had joined the terrorist organization "Islamic State (IS)" and developed hatred for the political leadership in Turkey.
The arrest was only achieved by accident
The charges include attempted murder in 31 cases, serious arson and the preparation of a serious act of violence that could endanger the state.
The attacks were directed against shops and restaurants owned by owners of Turkish origin.
D. was accidentally caught last May after behaving suspiciously during a ticket inspection on a regional train.
The police seized pipe bombs and kilos of explosives from the suspect, which he had previously stored for a long time in his car in an underground car park in Garching an der Alz.
In court he admits to have planned further acts: attacks on several mosques of the Islamic Association Ditib, on the Turkish Consulate General in Munich and the Ditib Central Mosque in Cologne.
The defense attorney had said at the beginning of the trial that his client might be mentally ill.
He did not assume a debt incapacity, but a reduced debt capacity, said the defense attorney.
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