An Afghan who on Wednesday in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg fatally injured two people with a knife, was temporarily placed in a psychiatric hospital by order of the investigating judge of the district court. TASR informs about it with reference to the DPA agency. The newspaper Bild was the first to announce it.
In this context, the DPA notes that such an order is usually issued when if there are indications that the suspect was not criminally responsible at the time of the crime due to mental illness.
As Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann, an Afghan, recalled on Wednesday afternoon unexpectedly attacked a two-year-old boy of Moroccan origin and a 41-year-old German with a knife in a park in Aschaffenburg, who succumbed to their injuries.
In addition, he injured a two-year-old girl from Syria three times in the neck with a kitchen knife. Multiple a 72-year-old man also suffered chest injuries, a 59-year-old teacher broke her arm when she tried to intervene. All the injured are still in hospital, but their lives are not in danger, a police spokesman said.
The attacker is 28 years old and the police detained him shortly after the crime. According to Herrmann, the Afghan should have been deported to Bulgaria last July, where he entered the territory of the EU, but this did not happen. Early December 2024 he informed the authorities in writing that he wanted to leave Germany, but that did not happen either, because he did not receive the necessary documents from the Afghan consulate. The minister noted that the man “obviously also received psychiatric treatment”.
Any reduced criminal responsibility of the man must be proven by the investigation. Among other things, the police are trying to clarify whether the Afghan man was targeting children from the nursery in the park.
