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Murder trial: woman in psychiatric held for witch
Files are at the start of the trial for a murder in a psychiatric clinic in the courtroom of the Munich District Court I. Photo
© Felix Hörhager/dpa
The mentally ill man is classified as a danger to himself and others. Immediately after being admitted to the psychiatric ward, he attacked another patient and killed her.
A mentally ill man is said to be a fellow patient in May last year in a killed Psychiatry. The murder trial began on Monday at the Munich I District Court. The 33-year-old Brazilian made a confession through his lawyer at the start of the trial. God ordered him to kill him because the woman was a witch.
Because of the risk of endangering himself and others, the man was admitted to the psychiatric clinic in the Munich district last year, only hours later, according to the public prosecutor’s office, he tore the rod of the shower curtain in his bathroom and went into the patient’s bathroom with it. According to the application, he hit her in the head two dozen times before strangling her with a sweater. After that he set a fire.
Friends and relatives of the dead held a vigil in front of the court, holding up photos of the woman. “The clinic should be a place of healing, a place where mentally ill people find protection,” says a memorial website on the Internet. “That morning, however, two people were clearly denied protection, our unsuspecting daughter and the confused patient who could become her killer unnoticed.”