Germany - 14 injured in mass stabbing on a bus - Luebeck, 20 July 2018

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Lübecker Attacke: "Für meinen Mandanten unfassbar"


Lübeck attack: "Incomprehensible for my client"

It is July 20th, shortly before the opening of Travemünde Week. A man is carrying a backpack with an accelerant when he gets on a bus in Lübeck-Kücknitz heading for Travemünde. Savage knife wounds to the passengers will follow. Ten people end up wounded. Courageous passengers overwhelm the man. His motifs remain a mystery. Now - less than two weeks later - the young man's lawyer has contacted NDR Schleswig-Holstein for a statement and responds to the question of "Why".

Even to his 34-year-old client, his lawyer Oliver Dedow says, the accusations are incomprehensible. His client would no longer be able to remember exactly what happened, and he himself will not comment on the allegations for the time being. Only this much: the crime has no terrorist background, it has clearly been caused by illness.

The mental illness has to be diagnosed, according to Dedow. His client has never been in treatment before. He is insightful with the clinical picture and also ready to be examined - hopefully with a subsequent therapy, according to the lawyer. "Unfortunately, I am not in a position to explain exactly this clinical picture." Lawyer Dedow insists on medical attention for the 34-year-old. He thinks he's in the wrong hands in the correctional facility. There he is currently in custody in the security area. The lawyer demands that his client be quickly transferred to a specialist clinic.

However, the Lübeck public prosecutor's office wants to clarify the psyche of the alleged perpetrator with the help of a psychological expert. But, according to Attorney General Ulla Hingst, there are still no signs that he has not been properly accommodated in the correctional facility. Among other things, she accuses the man of attempted murder. Asked if the 34-year-old has already admitted the accusations, the lawyer replies: "The evidence is clear. We have a variety of records. There were six cameras in the bus itself."


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One wonders if this might be yet another case of Inspired Stabbing Infidels Syndrome?

 

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Lübeck: Psychiatrisches Gutachten über Lübecker Messerangreifer geplant | shz.de

Two weeks after the bloody knife attack in a Lübeck city bus, a psychiatric expert will examine the alleged perpetrator. "If the 34-year-old has a psychiatric illness, he will receive appropriate treatment in the correctional facility," Ulla Hingst, Attorney General of Lübeck, said on Friday. So far, there are no signs that the man was in the wrong hands in the correctional facility. He has not yet commented on the allegations.

Ten people were injured during the bloody knife attack in a public bus in Lübeck on July 20. The alleged perpetrator is in custody on suspicion of attempted murder, among other things. He is said to have set fire to the bus and then stabbed passengers indiscriminately with a knife. The authorities rule out any terrorist background.

The lawyer of the alleged perpetrator has told the NDR Schleswig-Holstein about a pathological background of the man. "For my client himself, the charges are incomprehensible," Oliver Dedow told the station. "He is aware of his medical condition." His client was therefore prepared to be examined. His accommodation in the correctional facility was "faulty". The crime had "clearly been caused by illness." The condition can only be treated in a clinic.


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Messerattacke in Lübeck: Tatverdächtiger schweigt weiter - SAT.1 Regional

Lübeck knife attack: suspect remains silent

Barely a month after the knife attack and the attempted arson in a Lübeck city bus, the suspect remains silent. The 34-year-old still has made no statement, according to Ulla Hingst, spokesperson for the public prosecutor's office in Lübeck. Among other things, the German-Iranian is accused of multiple attempted murders. He is said to have set fire to the bus and then stabbed passengers indiscriminately with a knife. The investigators rule out any terrorist background.

The psychiatric evaluation of the 34-year-old by experts is expected to begin at the end of this week. "We expect their first assessment in the following week," Hingst said. Then the public prosecutor's office will decide whether it will apply for the 34-year-old to be placed in a psychiatric clinic. He is currently in custody.

Meanwhile, the victim protection organization Weißer Ring honored three passengers and the driver of the bus for their civil courage. According to the Weißer Ring, their courageous intervention has probably prevented worse things from happening.

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I hope the courageous pensioner Bodo Z., who hit the lunatic with a thick branch over the turnip ( "I took a thick branch and hit the attacker on the head with it. Then there was silence..." ) is among those honoured for their intervention.

 

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Kompakt: Norden Kompakt - WELT

The man who injured ten people during a knife attack in a Lübeck bus was admitted to a psychiatric ward. An expert had come to the conclusion that the 34-year-old was highly likely to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, the public prosecutor's office in Lübeck announced on Friday. Therefore, the pre-trial warrant had been converted into an internment warrant. The man had set fire to a bus on 20 July and stabbed passengers indiscriminately with a knife. He was subdued by several passengers and handed over to the police.


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