Driven by hallucinations and inner voices, a man repeatedly rams a long kitchen knife into the bodies of his victims, including a child. Three women die. A year after the disturbing act in Würzburg, the verdict is now falling.
For the deadly knife attack on unsuspecting passers-by, the district court of Würzburg sent a mentally ill man to a psychiatric ward for an indefinite period. That said the presiding judge, Thomas Schuster, at the verdict. It has been proven that the accused, who was innocent at the time of the crime, indiscriminately attacked people with a kitchen knife on June 25, 2021 in downtown Würzburg. Three women died and nine people were injured.
According to two independent reports, the Somali refugee is paranoid schizophrenic and heard voices that would have ordered him to commit the crime. As long as the man's illness, paranoid schizophrenia, persists and he is classified as dangerous, release from the psychiatric ward is out of the question. The judgment is not yet final (Az.: 1 Ks 502 Js 278/21).
The Munich public prosecutor's office had accused the man, around 30, whose age the authorities do not know, of three counts of murder and attempted murder. For reasons of space, the security procedure took place in an event hall in Estenfeld near Würzburg.
It has been proven that the man killed three unknown women with a knife in downtown Würzburg. There were also four seriously injured women. An 11-year-old girl and a 16-year-old were also seriously injured. There were also three minor injuries. A police officer who was attacked was not injured.
"The accused chose the victims arbitrarily," senior prosecutor Judith Henkel said in her final statement on Monday. The Somali acted insidiously and out of hatred for Germany, where he was treated unfairly and felt persecuted by the secret service. Voices in his head would have encouraged the man to act. "His intention was to kill as many people as possible (...)." There were no indications of a political motive or misogyny.
