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New developments after the attack in Würzburg: the suspected knife stabber is considered to be incapable of guilt

2021-10-22T13:53:14.302Z


Was it a terrorist attack or the act of a mentally ill man? There is ample speculation about the attack in Würzburg. Two reports now paint a new picture.


Was it a terrorist attack or the act of a mentally ill man?

There is ample speculation about the attack in Würzburg.

Two reports now paint a new picture.

Munich / Würzburg - Three dead and several people, some of them critically injured.

That was the result of the knife attack by a Somali in July in Würzburg.

The man has since been placed in a psychiatric hospital.

Now the results of the reports on the alleged perpetrator have been published.

The man is considered to be incompetent.

But what does that mean now?

Assassination attempt in Würzburg: reports see the suspect as incapable of guilt

According to a psychiatric assessment, the Würzburg knife stabber was innocent of guilt when he attacked passers-by at the end of June.

The two experts commissioned in the investigation would each come to this result independently of one another, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office * announced on Friday.

However, it is still unclear what exactly drove the Somali to the attack on people who were obviously unknown to him.

Fears shortly after the crime that the refugee acted for terrorist reasons or religious beliefs have not yet been confirmed.

There are still no indications of confidants or accomplices or an extremist background, the investigators said on Friday.

According to a toxicological report, the Somali had not taken drugs or alcohol.


Assassination attempt in Würzburg: Permanent placement in a psychiatric ward

With the recent report, there is now much to suggest that there will be a so-called security procedure against the 32-year-old - probably before the district court of Würzburg *. Such proceedings involve placing an accused in a psychiatric ward. The public prosecutor's office does not write an indictment, as in normal criminal proceedings, but an application: the Munich public prosecutor's office wants to apply for permanent placement in a closed department of a psychiatric hospital by the end of the year, the investigators said on Friday.

In this procedure, the accused remains the accused and does not become the accused.

Nevertheless, there is a hearing in court - in this case probably before a jury chamber.

The investigators emphasized on Friday that the assessment as incompetent did not mean that there were doubts about the man's culpability or that he was innocent.

He had been questioned on September 30th and had described the course of the crime in detail.

The investigators initially did not provide any further information on the statements.

Video: The alleged perpetrator from Würzburg is older than previously assumed

Assassination attempt in Würzburg: an earlier report was based on the insolvency

It has been proven that the migrant stabbed people who were obviously unknown to him on June 25th in the Mainstadt *.

Three women died and five people were critically injured.

There were also four slightly injured.

The investigators had already announced on July 20, based on an initial psychiatric report, that the man was possibly incapable of guilt at the time of the crime.

The accused has been in a psychiatric hospital for months.

"He now makes a good impression, is mentally stable," said his lawyer Hanjo Schrepfer of the German press agency.

“He's well adjusted with medication.” In his interrogation a few weeks ago, he regretted the knife attack.


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Attack in Würzburg: No evidence of an Islamist-motivated attack

Witnesses claim to have heard the exclamation "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great") twice during the knife attack.

Jihadists and Salafists often use the term like a battle cry.

In doing so, the extremists are hijacking the central religious formula of Islam, which has been used by Muslims around the world for centuries.


In addition, the refugee, who was later stopped with a police shot in the hospital, is said to have hinted at the jihad - that is, the "holy war".

Therefore, the investigators so far considered it obvious that the man could have been Islamistically motivated.

The motive is still unknown.

So far there is no evidence that the Somali was involved in a terrorist organization.

(dpa) * Merkur.de / bayern is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

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