After the rampage in Berlin, the public prosecutor’s office applied for the Placement of the driver in a psychiatric institution until the main hearing. This was announced by the spokesman for the public prosecutor, Sebastian Büchner, on Thursday. The so-called accommodation order is in progress. the The decision of an investigating judge is expected on the same day.
The public prosecutor’s office goes from one to the death drive on Kurfürstendamm intentional act out. What was still unclear yesterday has now been substantiated, the spokesman said: “There are indications that it there was a mental impairment in the accusedthat too The reason for yesterday’s act.“
As part of the searches drugs have been foundmeanwhile the 29-year-old also has his defender treating Doctors released from confidentiality“in this respect there is a lot to be said for one paranoid schizophrenia‘ said Buechner.
So far, there is no evidence that the man was ever mentally conspicuous.
Investigations should now show whether the man’s illness is actually responsible for what happened. According to the information, the public prosecutor’s office is leaving from incapacity. “At the moment, as far as this application for the placement order is concerned, the first prognosis is that it is more likely that he acted in a state of incapacity than that he was actually guilty himself,” said Büchner.
The prosecutor accuses the 29-year-old one murder and 32 counts of attempted murder before and also a dangerous intervention in road traffic. The characteristics of the murder are malice and committing it with means that are dangerous to the public. The man “deliberately drove his vehicle” into a first group of people on the corner of Ku’damm and Rankestrasse and then into a group of students and teachers on Tauentzienstrasse.
there is no evidence of any kind of terrorist background, said Büchner, an accident can also be ruled out. A letter of confession was not found.
currently be only the accompanying teacher was life-threateningly injured, the seven seriously injured students are not in mortal danger. (with dpa)