As of: 04/06/2023 8:29 p.m
The father of Hamburg amok shooter Philipp F. contacted the authorities in 2021 because of his son’s mental problems. This was announced on Thursday in the Citizens’ Committee on the Interior.
The father called the social psychiatric service and said that his son heard voices and wanted to kill himself, said the head of the Hamburg State Criminal Police Office, Jan Hieber, before the interior committee. After a conversation with the son, however, no further measures were found necessary.
LKA: Change of character detected in 2019
As early as 2019, the environment of the later perpetrator noticed a change in character in Philipp F. after he ended his relationship and lost his job, said Hieber. He then contacted doctors himself “to get his psychological problems under control” and had meanwhile also been in inpatient treatment in Bavaria. When Philipp F. announced in 2021 that he wanted to heal himself, the father decided to involve the authorities.
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Control by weapons authority before the fact
Since the shooting, the role of the weapons authority has been in focus. Specifically, it is about the question of whether, following an anonymous tip-off during an inspection of the sport shooter a few weeks before the crime, she should have become aware of his mental state and should have withdrawn his weapon.
The committee meeting also dealt with the updated police report on the exact course of events. According to this, a total of more than 1,000 police officers were on duty during the night. They said they would have prevented further victims through their immediate intervention.
Eight dead after killing spree
During the killing spree on March 9 in Deelböge Street in the Alsterdorf district, 35-year-old Philipp F. killed seven people and himself at a community meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Nine people were injured.
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