Knife attack: Alleged perpetrator admitted to psychiatric hospital

Created: 06/11/2022, 16:46

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In the case of the knife attack at Hamm University, which injured four, the 34-year-old suspect was admitted to a psychiatric clinic.

This was announced by the Dortmund police on Saturday.

According to a psychiatric report, the investigators assume that the student was fully incapable of culpability or reduced criminal responsibility when he committed the crime on Friday afternoon.

Hamm - He suffered from fear of persecution and delusions, said prosecutor Henner Kruse.

Only two days earlier he had attempted suicide and had therefore come to a psychiatric clinic.

He released himself there on Friday afternoon.

The victims of the attacks on the Hamm campus of the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences are two female and one male student, all 22 years old.

The fourth, seriously injured victim is a 30-year-old lecturer.

According to the police, doctors assume that she will die.

"The 30-year-old is expected to die," said Deputy Dortmund Police Commissioner Ralf Ziegler.

The suspect is said to have first stabbed the students in the foyer of the university.

In a lecture hall where a lecture was being held in front of around 100 people, the German then attacked the 30-year-old.

All four victims are accidental victims.

The murder weapons, two kitchen knives, were bought by the man shortly before the crime.

There are no indications of a political or religious background to the crime, it said.

Will be determined because of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm, said Kruse.

dpa