Due to paranoid schizophrenia, a man who crashed his automobile into a group of youngsters in the heart of Berlin last year was found not criminally responsible. He received a psychiatric detention order.
After he crashed his automobile into a large group of pedestrians in the German capital last June, a man was given a long-term mental care sentence by a Berlin court on Friday.
Additionally, the 30-year-old’s driver’s license was permanently suspended.
In the attack on the Kurfürstendamm street, a primary school teacher died. Among the 17 injured were another adolescent girl, 11 students, and another instructor.
After a commission determined that the German citizen, who was born in Armenia, was a long-standing paranoid schizophrenic who could not be found criminally culpable and who had not taken his medication on the day of the crime, the prosecution agreed to settle for psychiatric internment during its closing arguments earlier this week.
The prosecution initially appeared to be pushing for a prison term, claiming that the defendant was aware that his conduct might result in the loss of life and that he had willingly accepted this.
However, the defense had also stated that it would not contest or appeal the prosecution’s recommendation for mental internment.
According to Judge Thomas Gross, the case featured a very ill young man whose condition had been deteriorating, and the ruling was required for the greater safety of the public.
Although the defendant was found not to be legally responsible for the murder and attempted murder, the court did describe the offenses as murder and attempted murder.
With the 30-year-old refusing to speak for the whole of the trial, the case provided little insight into the defendant’s potential motivation. Due to his client’s severe psychological condition, his defense attorney claimed there was no evidence of murderous intent in the case.
