He would suffer from “paranoid schizophrenia”. The author of a stabbing attack at a German university, which injured four people, including a woman who is in a desperate state, was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, the Dortmund prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday June 11.
The day before, Friday, the 34-year-old suspect armed with two kitchen knives attacked four people in turn “chosen at random” in this higher establishment in Hamm-Lippstadt (North Rhine-Westphalia), a said the spokesman for the prosecution, Henner Kruse, during a press conference. A 30-year-old assistant professor, assaulted while attending a conference, is currently between life and death. “Doctors are pretty much out of hope that she will pull through.”
Previously, the suspect had stabbed in the stomach eight times a 22-year-old student who had to be operated on urgently, but whose days are not in danger. The other two victims, a 22-year-old man and another young woman of the same age, were less seriously affected.
die #polizei #Hamm hat einen größeren Einsatz im Bereich der Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt. Mehrere Personen wurden mit einem Messer verletzt. Der Täter ist sicher. Wir sind mit starken Polizeikräften vor Ort und bitten Sie, diesen Bereich zu meiden. Wir berichten yesterday.
— Polizei NRW HAM (@polizei_nrw_ham) June 10, 2022
The suspect, who studied for a long time in this establishment, was finally neutralized by students and the police quickly arrived on the scene. He acknowledged the facts, explaining his gesture by the fact that he felt threatened by a group of students who, according to him, wanted “annihilate it”. It would be reached “paranoid schizophrenia” and would suffer “hallucinations”according the spokesperson for the prosecution.
Long treated for mental disorders, he had attempted suicide two days before the events and had voluntarily stayed in a psychiatric care center before asking to be released.
The police ruled out any political or religious motive. An investigation for attempted murder and serious injury has been opened against him, said the spokesperson for the prosecution, judging it likely that he was not responsible at the time of his actions.