NO WELCOMING CULTURE WITHOUT THERAPY: AN ESTIMATED HALF OF 1.5 MIO REFUGEES IN GERMANY HAVE PSYCHOLOGIAL TRAUMA
ANSBACH TERRORIST: IS-FIGHTER OR PSYCHO-WRECK?
Das Erste. NDR
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/arc...r-oder-Psychowrack,selbstmordanschlag100.html
The suicide bombing of Ansbach - for days his news has been dictating the headlines of the German media. The shock is deep, an attack of the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS) in the middle of Bavaria? But what were the motives of the perpetrator, whom IS called one of their "soldiers" in a messge on the internet ? Who asks these questions, will end up inevitably in Lindau am Bodensee
Diagnosis: Posttraumatic stress disorder
Also Mohammad Daleel, the perpetrator, was often in Lindau. Not as a tourist but as a patient. Until early this year, the future assassin came here regularly during therapy.
His diagnosis: post-traumatic stress disorder and related depression. Shielded from the street by a high hedge the office of Axel von Maltitz is located, a "
Heilpraktiker"[ "healing practitioner"] and trauma therapist. When he speaks about Mohammad Daleel, he seems sober and calm. He looks at the assassin of Ansbach as a patient: "
.. He was traumatized, he was severely traumatized. And that keeps a person busy day and night. He has nightmares, he is screaming during sleep. Such a person is psychologically not in good order."
Axel von Maltitz spent much time with Mohammad Daleel, he spoke with him a lot. They met for a total of 40 times. 40 times they have spoken during about 90 minutes. Still, he knows the 27-year-old only as a patient: "I avoid private contacts. Because either I am there as the therapist or I am private.." Whether Mohammad Daleel prayed regularly, what he thought politically - about these things the two never talked a lot. For Maltitz this does not belong in a therapy. The therapist only recalls that his patient liked to cycle and smoke a lot.
A timeline full of stones
His medical history he knows all the better. Maltitz treats his patients with the narrative exposure therapy. With such a treatment, the patient mist become aware that his life is a time line on which the traumatic event can be categorized. With Axel von Maltitz this begins like a play: A piece of string laid out on the floor symbolizes the patient's life. Drastic, beautiful or terrible events are now put in their order on the cord. For beautiful events a flower is placed on the cord, for bad experiences a stone. On the line of Mohammad Daleel lay many stones. More stones than flowers.
A life told through medical records
As told by the later attacker and documented in the medical records, his life reads like this:
Mohammad Daleel grew up as one of three children of a wealthy family. He became involved in the Arab Spring. Because of his opposition to the Assad regime, he was repeatedly arrested and tortured. He tells of other prisoners who were doused by guards with acid. Again and again, his father bought him free. Finally Daleel moves with his wife and child to a the part of Syria that was not ruled by Assad. In April 2013 his wife and child are killed by a bomb. He flees. First to Turkey, later to Bulgaria. Here he was arrested because he did not want to register as a refugee in the country. In prison, he is beaten and mistreated. After his release, he lives on the street, he travels on to Austria and finally to Germany. He is afraid of being deported to Bulgaria.
Here, the notes in the medical records end - the number of approved therapy sessions was exhausted. Before he could continue, Mohammad Daleel blows himself up.
"For him, death was actually a friend"
All these figures are based on the statements of Daleel during his therapy. Some can be checked, others cannot.
Axel von Maltitz believes the stories of his patient. He had never once entangled himself in contradictions during the talks, his history is coherent. Especially the torture in the prisons of Assad, the death of his wife and his child, but also the treatment in the Bulgarian prison would have traumatized Daleel heavily - of this Maltitz is convinced: "He had no will to live, he had nothing to enjoy in life. Death actually was a friend to him. One can also say that about his descriptions of these torture chambers in Syria, that he says repeatedly that people were waiting for death as the redeemer." The risk of suicide in case of deportation to Bulgaria the therapist considered to be considerable, a terrorist attack or extended suicide he did not think him capable of.
No knowledge of potential IS-Contact
About a possible contact with the IS, the files say nothing. Naturally - they are based almost exclusively on the statements of Daleel himself. In the media there alot is being speculated now, stories are going around. The IS would have enlisted him in Bulgaria and paid his flight to Germany. In the conversation logs from his therapy, this reads differently. An elderly lady who had already driven him due to his injuries to the hospital, paid for for the flight to Austria. Which version is correct? The investigation may show this.
The contact between Axel von Maltitz and Mohammad Daleel ended earlier this year after the therapy was stopped. A new therapy had been long applied for, the acceptance of the costs for "further treatment phases" was assured. It never came to that point. What happened in the past six months with Mohammad Daleel, Maltitz does not know. But one thing is clear to him:.. "The thought of going back to Bulgaria, that was so terrible for him. In my opinion, he was certain that he would not be going there. He put it differently, saying, then I shall go straight to Syria, then they should send me to Syria right away. Because in Bulgaria, there is no life for me. " On August 1, 2016 Mohammad Daleel would have finally been able to continue his therapy. Too late.
BBM
Let me put it to you like this:
I have been fooled BIG in my life, and that, however painfull, somehow gives me an advantage over persons like this therapist.
May the force enlighten him, and all the other good people of Germany.
:worms:
