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Crime scene in Würzburg: three women died after the knife attack
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In the case of the attacker from Würzburg, the authorities decided a few months ago, contrary to the advice of the treating doctors, not to provide a carer for the mentally ill Abdirahman JA. This was announced by the Würzburg district court at the request of SPIEGEL. The assassin killed three people in a knife attack last week and injured others, some seriously. According to the city of Würzburg, however, a new care procedure was initiated in June that had not yet been completed at the time of the offense. The Somali refugee has yet to be assessed.
The first proceedings regarding the question of an official supervisor for Abdirahman JA were discontinued on April 14 of this year, "because at that time there was insufficient evidence for the requirement of supervision," says the court's letter.
In addition, the person concerned was "not found despite multiple attempts" after his release from psychiatry.
JA had killed three people with a knife in Würzburg last Friday and seriously injured several victims.
According to the investigators, the suspect is said to have entered a department store on Barbarossaplatz in Würzburg around 5 p.m.
He asked a saleswoman about the household department and took a knife from the display.
Obviously, he stabbed several people without warning.
Three women died.
The man also attacked passers-by in a bank opposite and on the street, whom he probably didn't know as far as he knew.
The authorities have already noticed suspected perpetrators several times
Abdirahman JA, who last lived in a homeless shelter in Würzburg-Zellerau, had already attracted the authorities several times.
In June, the civil war refugee is said to have suddenly got into someone else's car in a confused state.
The Somali reacted neither to the driver nor to the police that had been summoned.
He was then sent to a mental health facility, but was able to go home after a day.
An incident had already occurred in January in the accommodation where Abdirahman JA lived: The 24-year-old is said to have threatened a roommate and the administrator of the accommodation with a knife.
Because of JA's psychological condition, the Bavarian authorities ordered temporary placement in a psychiatric facility.
The Somali stayed there for a little more than a week.
The psychiatric facility then suggested assigning an official supervisor to JA.
But that was rejected.
An incident from November 2015 is also on record. At that time, the Somali is said to have clashed with a roommate in his asylum accommodation in the Ore Mountains.
The Chemnitz public prosecutor's office investigated Abdirahman JA for dangerous bodily harm. However, according to a spokesman for the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Saxony, the investigations had been discontinued because those affected had presented the events differently.
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