AFTER THREE DAYS FRANZ W. LEFT THE PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC
BaslerZeitung
http://bazonline.ch/panorama/vermis...rliess-franz-w-die-psychiatrie/story/29333185
Schaffhausen's chainsaw attacker was forced into a psychiatric clinic in 2016. A controversial measure that is applied often.
He did not present any urgent threat, that was the police's opinion about the - in the meantime imprisoned - Franz W., before his attack on CSS employees in Schaffhausen. After that, it was said that the man was dangerous and mentally unstable. The latter was already noticeable on 11 April 2016.
On that day, Franz W., then living in Beromünster, had been particularly confused, and the police took him into their office. The "Zentral Schweiz am Sonntag" reports this. The police found that he had an electric taser and an open razor with him. Already once before, Franz W. had been reported for illegal weaponry. At that time a pistol, a pointed hammer, pepper spray and ammunition were seized.
Fearing that Franz W. might do harm to himself or to others, he was transferred to the psychiatric clinic St. Urban in Lucerne. The so-called preventive housing rule was applied. According to the report, Franz W. was able to leave the clinic three days after he had been committed. Apparently doctors had come to the conclusion that there was no longer an immediate risk of self-harm or harm to others. A miscalculation, as the recent events have shown.
Is health care reaching the limits of its capacity? The numbers of preventive housing have risen by 30 per cent in one year, as the "SonntagsZeitung" writes.
In 2015 more than 14,000 people were sent to guarded facilities against their will. The figures come from a psychiatry record of the medical statistics of the hospitals. A preventive nursing home is intended for emergencies and takes an average of 20 days, as evidenced in an unpublished study by the Psychiatric University Clinic of Zurich.
Matthias Jäger, senior physician at the psychiatric university hospital in Zurich, is critical about the development. "Studies show that the course of the disease is not better after a preventive nursing home than in case of voluntary treatment," he tells the "Sonntags Zeitung". On the contrary, the prognosis would deteriorate, because the persons concerned do not want to consider any help at all after a forced experience.
Also Franz W. appeared to avoid the authorities after his hospital stay. For instance, he changed his place of residence several times in a short time and lived among other things in the cantons of Zurich, Basel, Lucerne and Graubünden.
Even if the chainsaw attacker had been noticed by his fellow human beings because of his verbal attacks and neglected appearance: yet he always had registered correctly until November 2016. The authorities did not have him on their radar. According to their own data, neither did CSS Insurance have previously any negative experience with Franz W. His attack came as a total surprise to them.
BBM
BaslerZeitung
http://bazonline.ch/panorama/vermis...rliess-franz-w-die-psychiatrie/story/29333185
Schaffhausen's chainsaw attacker was forced into a psychiatric clinic in 2016. A controversial measure that is applied often.
He did not present any urgent threat, that was the police's opinion about the - in the meantime imprisoned - Franz W., before his attack on CSS employees in Schaffhausen. After that, it was said that the man was dangerous and mentally unstable. The latter was already noticeable on 11 April 2016.
On that day, Franz W., then living in Beromünster, had been particularly confused, and the police took him into their office. The "Zentral Schweiz am Sonntag" reports this. The police found that he had an electric taser and an open razor with him. Already once before, Franz W. had been reported for illegal weaponry. At that time a pistol, a pointed hammer, pepper spray and ammunition were seized.
Fearing that Franz W. might do harm to himself or to others, he was transferred to the psychiatric clinic St. Urban in Lucerne. The so-called preventive housing rule was applied. According to the report, Franz W. was able to leave the clinic three days after he had been committed. Apparently doctors had come to the conclusion that there was no longer an immediate risk of self-harm or harm to others. A miscalculation, as the recent events have shown.
Is health care reaching the limits of its capacity? The numbers of preventive housing have risen by 30 per cent in one year, as the "SonntagsZeitung" writes.
In 2015 more than 14,000 people were sent to guarded facilities against their will. The figures come from a psychiatry record of the medical statistics of the hospitals. A preventive nursing home is intended for emergencies and takes an average of 20 days, as evidenced in an unpublished study by the Psychiatric University Clinic of Zurich.
Matthias Jäger, senior physician at the psychiatric university hospital in Zurich, is critical about the development. "Studies show that the course of the disease is not better after a preventive nursing home than in case of voluntary treatment," he tells the "Sonntags Zeitung". On the contrary, the prognosis would deteriorate, because the persons concerned do not want to consider any help at all after a forced experience.
Also Franz W. appeared to avoid the authorities after his hospital stay. For instance, he changed his place of residence several times in a short time and lived among other things in the cantons of Zurich, Basel, Lucerne and Graubünden.
Even if the chainsaw attacker had been noticed by his fellow human beings because of his verbal attacks and neglected appearance: yet he always had registered correctly until November 2016. The authorities did not have him on their radar. According to their own data, neither did CSS Insurance have previously any negative experience with Franz W. His attack came as a total surprise to them.
BBM
