“Man threatens people with an ax at the Ismaninger S-Bahn station”: This was the report that ran over the police radio on February 9 last year. With a “uneasy feeling,” says a policewoman in court, she drove off at the time. The “threatening” Ludwig T. (name changed) allowed himself to be arrested without resistance, but then freaked out again at the station.
“I’ll come back and shoot you all,” he shouted at the police officers. Ludwig T. suffers from schizophrenia. The Juvenile Criminal Court at the Munich I District Court will decide whether he can leave the closed clinic again or whether he poses a danger to the general public.
The 20-year-old speaks slowly, slurred, as if he finds it difficult to formulate sentences. When the presiding judge Stephan Kirchinger asked him if he wanted to comment on the matter, all he said was: “Talk less.” Gradually, Ludwig T. reports from his childhood in Unterföhring that he failed twice in high school, “I had no drive anymore”. After high school, he tried training as a mechatronics technician, but was quickly dismissed from there. “I had too many minus hours, always overslept.”
At that time he noticed that he was not doing well mentally, “I had the feeling that something was wrong”. He heard voices and saw things that didn’t exist. “Like a woman in a white robe floating in the air.” He was already smoking cannabis at the age of 13, soon it was two to four joints – every day. He lived on Hartz IV and on his mother’s money, with whom he lived.
The defendant says he was bumming cigarettes and didn’t want to threaten anyone
Lawyer Gerhard Bink persuades his client to comment on the matter, and so Ludwig T. says about the application: “Yes, that’s all right, almost.” On that February day he was visiting his girlfriend in Ismaning, and on the way to the train station he passed a car with an open trunk. “A man was working in the garden next door.” He saw the ax, stole it and walked around the train station with it. “I didn’t have any money with me and wanted to scrounge cigarettes,” he says. He didn’t want to threaten anyone.
“He was sitting on a bench, was totally calm and cooperative,” says a police officer, describing the situation of the arrest. In the car, however, T. freaked out, insulted her, and later physically defended herself. “It always came in batches,” reports the officer. Later, in the clinic in Haar, he hit a nurse to the ground with his fist. “Something in me bubbled and boiled,” says T..
Ludwig T. is no stranger to the police and the courts: theft, physical harm, drunk driving and no driver’s license. Once he locked his girlfriend in her apartment, in the end even the USK moved in.
T. would have a place in a therapeutic group home. He would like to go to technical college, study medicine “and become a doctor, that’s what I’ve always wanted to do”. A verdict is now waiting for him in early February.