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Knife attack in Hamm: the perpetrator suffered from paranoia - the first victim was released from the hospital

2022-06-13T11:24:34.413Z


Knife attack in Hamm: the perpetrator suffered from paranoia - the first victim was released from the hospital Created: 06/13/2022Updated: 06/13/2022 13:10 A victim died after the knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences. Three other people were injured, some seriously. The police are investigating an amok suspicion. Knife attack at Hamm University: 30-year-old dies of


Knife attack in Hamm: the perpetrator suffered from paranoia - the first victim was released from the hospital

Created: 06/13/2022Updated: 06/13/2022 13:10

A victim died after the knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Three other people were injured, some seriously.

The police are investigating an amok suspicion.

  • Knife attack at Hamm University: 30-year-old dies of injuries in hospital.

  • At least four people were injured in a knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL) on Friday, and one person is in acute danger of death.

  • Students had overpowered the 34-year-old individual and held him until the police arrived.

  • There is a suspicion that it could be an amok act.

    The alleged perpetrator apparently suffered from a mental illness.

  • This news ticker is continuously updated.

Update from June 13, 1:08 p.m .:

At the Hamm University of Applied Sciences, students and teachers thought of the 30-year-old lecturer who was killed.

On Monday, many mourners laid flowers and candles on the Hamm campus and paused in silence.

The mood was very depressed.

One day after the knife attack by a suspected mentally ill person on Friday, the 30-year-old from Essen died of her serious injuries on Saturday.

The Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences had canceled all events and exams.

Students and teachers also took advantage of the emergency pastoral care, said a university spokeswoman.

Three students aged 22 were also injured in the knife attack.

A student has since been released from the clinic, and this is imminent for a student, a spokesman for the public prosecutor reported.

The third victim suffered serious abdominal injuries.

According to the prosecutor, the doctors assumed that the 22-year-old was out of danger.

Knife attack in Hamm: the perpetrator suffered from paranoia - he even filed a complaint

Update from June 12, 5:20 p.m .:

In the case of the knife attack in Hamm, more details about the alleged perpetrator have now become known.

The 34-year-old had fears of persecution and delusions and thought the attacked members of a group that was trying to kill him, summarized public prosecutor Henner Kruse in Dortmund.

Investigators still assume that all four victims were accidental victims.

At the beginning of April, the 34-year-old had already filed a complaint because he felt persecuted, said Hamm's chief of police, Thomas Kubera.

At the time, the alleged perpetrator was very open about his mental illness.

Thereupon there was also a so-called risk assessment, whereby a danger to oneself and others was ruled out.

The man only attempted suicide two days before the crime and was therefore treated in a psychiatric clinic.

He released himself there on Friday afternoon, Kruse said.

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

"He went into the technical college to kill the people who were trying to kill him," Kruse outlined the possible perspective of the alleged perpetrator.

There is no evidence of a political or religious background to the crime.

The unconvicted man confessed to the crimes.

It is now being investigated for murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.

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Knife attack in the university in Hamm: the university thanks the students

Update from June 12, 2:34 p.m

.: After the death of the 30-year-old lecturer, there is great sadness at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL).

"The act itself horrified us that it is incomprehensible that she has now snatched such a valued HSHL colleague from our midst," the university said on its website.

"We are deeply shocked by the events on Friday, June 10th, 2022 at our campus in Hamm.

Our thoughts are with those affected and their families.”

The university would like to thank the students "who bravely stood up to the attacker and the police and rescue services for intervening quickly." 

All events and exams at the Hamm campus have been canceled for Monday.

The campus will be opened up to students as a place to exchange ideas and pause.

The Executive Committee, teachers and emergency pastors are available for discussions.

A room will be set up for quiet remembrance.

Knife attack in a university in Hamm: 30-year-old woman dies – police praise brave students

Update from June 12, 10:29 a.m

.: After the knife attack in Hamm, a 30-year-old woman died of her injuries in the hospital.

The 30-year-old succumbed to her injuries on Saturday in the late afternoon, the Dortmund public prosecutor said on Sunday.

The public prosecutor said on Saturday that the doctors saw no chance of survival for them.

The victim was a lecturer at the university.

The alleged perpetrator apparently attacked four people indiscriminately on Friday, some seriously injuring them.

The 34-year-old has since been placed in a psychiatric hospital.

The man has been suffering from mental problems for a long time, said the spokesman for the Dortmund public prosecutor, Henner Kruse, on Saturday.

According to the previous investigations, the 34-year-old went into a building of the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences in Hamm on Friday afternoon.

According to Kruse, he had two kitchen knives he had bought recently.

The man then attacked a 22-year-old woman in the foyer, then a 22-year-old man and then another 22-year-old woman.

It's a "chance victim".

The first two victims suffered injuries including neck injuries.

According to the public prosecutor, the third woman attacked suffered eight stitches in the abdomen and had to undergo emergency surgery.

Life is no longer in danger.

The 34-year-old then entered a lecture hall and stabbed a 30-year-old lecturer at the university who was listening to a guest lecture.

She suffered "very serious internal injuries" from stitches in the chest area.

The woman was taken to a university hospital by helicopter and also had an emergency operation.

Now the 30-year-old has died.

The alleged perpetrator was overpowered by students in the lecture hall and then arrested by the police.

He confessed to the crime and stated that he saw no other way out, Kruse said.

Accordingly, the man assumed that those present in the university building belonged to the group that wanted to kill him.

The Dortmund police chief, Ralf Ziegler, paid tribute to the overpowering of the perpetrator by the students.

They acted "very courageously and very, very quick-witted".

By intervening, they would have "certainly prevented countless other victims."

The university canceled teaching in Hamm for Monday.

However, the campus will be open to students “as a place to exchange ideas and pause”.

As a result of the knife attack, a 30-year-old lecturer at Hamm-Lippstadt University (HSHL) died.

© Bernd Thissen/dpa

Knife attack in a university in Hamm: Four injured – suspect admitted to a psychiatric clinic

Update from June 10, 4:14 p.m .:

In the case of the knife attack at Hamm University with four injuries, 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.

Prosecutor Henner Kruse said he suffered from fear of persecution and delusions.

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

He released himself there on Friday afternoon.

Knife attack in Hamm: Seriously injured 30-year-old will probably die

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.

Update from June 10, 10:12 p.m .:

In the case of the knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, there is evidence of a mental illness of the alleged perpetrator.

The 34-year-old should therefore be examined by a psychiatrist on Saturday, as a spokesman for the Dortmund public prosecutor's office told the German Press Agency on Friday evening.

There is no evidence of a political background or accomplices.

Four people were injured, some seriously, in the attack on Friday afternoon.

One of the victims, a woman, had undergone an emergency operation and was in critical mortal danger, the prosecutor said.

Knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences: police examine suspected amok

Update from June 10, 7:33 p.m.:

According to police chief Thomas Kubera, the police are currently investigating the suspicion that the knife attack at Hamm-Lippstadt University could be an amok act.

The

Westfälische Anzeiger (wa.de)

reports on Friday.

In such a case, it is normal to check whether there are other suspects.

Accordingly, emergency services from all over North Rhine-Westphalia searched the university.

However, one does not assume that there is still a danger on campus, said a police spokesman.

According to wa.de

, the 34-year-old attacker is said to be a lone

perpetrator who is himself a student at the university and apparently comes from Hamm.

Knife attack Hamm-Lippstadt: Two seriously injured among the victims

Update from June 10, 6:31 p.m .:

In the knife attack at the university in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, there are two seriously injured, as has now become known.

According to the

Westfälisches Anzeiger

, the four injured are three women and one man, including two people with serious injuries.

One victim's injuries were so serious that he had to be flown to a hospital by helicopter, a police spokesman said on Friday afternoon.

Knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt: Students overwhelm the perpetrator and hold him until the police arrive

Update from June 10, 5:59 p.m .:

The perpetrator, who stabbed four people at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, was overwhelmed by students in a lecture hall and held until the police arrived.

The man is a 34-year-old, a police spokesman has now confirmed.

It is still unclear whether he himself is or was a student at the university.

According to initial findings, the man went into the university building around 3:30 p.m. and attacked people in the corridors.

Then he headed for a larger lecture hall.

There he was overpowered.

Knife attack Hamm-Lippstadt: HSHL Chancellor shocked by the incident

Update from June 10, 5.45 p.m .:

The campus area of ​​the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL) is currently cordoned off, as is Marker Allee, which leads past the HSHL.

However, the canteen is said to have been opened "in order to accommodate the students in the best possible way," as HSHL Chancellor Sandra Schlösser told the

Westfälisches Anzeiger

.

Pastors are on site to look after the students.

"You're shocked.

In 15 years of university work, she has never experienced anything like this," continued Schlösser.

An aerial photo of the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences in the Mitte district of Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia (archive photo).

© Hans Blossey/ Imago

Knife attack Hamm-Lippstadt: 34-year-old individual injured at least four people

First report :

Hamm-Lippstadt - At least four people are said to have been stabbed at the University of Hamm-Lippstadt (HSHL), according to a police spokesman on Friday.

The spokesman could not comment on the severity of the injuries sustained by the four victims.

According to our network portal, the Westfälisches Anzeiger (wa.de)

, the suspect is said to

be a 34-year-old.

The Hamm police reported on Twitter about a larger operation in the university area.

The officials also confirmed that the perpetrator had already been brought under control.

According to information from

wa.de

, the attacker was held by students and thus stopped.

The first report of the knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt is said to have been received around 3:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon, as reported by the

Westfälisches Anzeiger

.

Around 5 p.m., officials from the special task force SEK arrived at the university.

"We are on site with strong police forces and ask you to avoid this area," Hamm police continued.

The details and background to the act were initially unclear.

Knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt: eyewitness reports of attack in the lecture hall

Big crowd in front of the university in Hamm on Friday afternoon.

©Andreas Rother

An eyewitness told the news portal

nw.de

that there should have been an attack in a lecture hall at Hamm-Lippstadt University.

Accordingly, a lecturer at the university was apparently stabbed in the chest by a male attacker.

The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken away by helicopter.

According to eyewitnesses, the perpetrator is said to be a former student at the university.

The information could not be confirmed at first.

The police have not released any information about the perpetrator or the course of the crime.

Source: merkur

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