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The accused nurse at the Potsdam Regional Court (archive image)
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In the trial for the killing of four residents of a Potsdam dormitory for people with disabilities, the public prosecutor's office demanded 15 years imprisonment for the accused former carer.
Prosecutor Maria Stiller saw in her plea before the regional court of the Brandenburg state capital as proven that Ines Andrea R. murdered four people insidiously.
In addition, she tried to do so in two cases.
She requested that the accused be placed in a psychiatric clinic.
The 52-year-old is said to have killed four defenseless residents between the ages of 31 and 56 in the dormitory of the diaconal provider Oberlinhaus with a knife in their rooms at the end of April.
A 43-year-old resident survived after an emergency operation.
According to an expert, the woman had committed the act in a state of significantly reduced culpability. This speaks legally against a life sentence. According to the public prosecutor's office, however, among other things, the multiple targeted actions and the maintenance of a lie to cover up the crime speak against a complete abolition of the ability to control and thus against a complete incapacity. The defendant had not commented on the offenses at the trial.
R. is said to have committed the acts according to Stiller in unity with dangerous bodily harm and the severe mistreatment of the wards.
The public prosecutor also called for the accused to be placed in a psychiatric hospital and a lifelong professional ban in addition to the term of imprisonment.
Stiller called the act "profoundly evil".
The defendant also showed no remorse.
In the process, among other things, investigators, colleagues from R. and the husband testified.
A psychiatric assessor was heard on Thursday.
According to your expert opinion, R. should have committed the act in a state of considerably reduced culpability.
R. was arrested immediately after the offense under strong suspicion.
She is now housed in a psychiatric facility.
kim / dpa / AFP
