According to a psychiatrist, the knife stabber from Würzburg is mentally ill and remains highly dangerous without treatment.
"There is no doubt that the accused suffers from paranoid schizophrenia," said Hans-Peter Volz, medical director of the Werneck Castle Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, on Friday in the trial against the accused in Estenfeld near Würzburg.
Volz also referred to the day of the crime, June 25, 2021. The probability that the Somali could commit further "highly aggressive acts" without treatment in a psychiatric ward is "extremely high".
He considers it impossible for the accused to simulate.
The man, around 30, whose age is not known to the authorities, killed three unknown women with a knife in Würzburg last summer.
He also seriously injured four other women.
An eleven-year-old girl and a 16-year-old also suffered serious injuries.
There were also three minor injuries.
"The subject was acutely delusional," said Volz about the condition of the refugee on the day of the crime.
He felt like he was being followed by secret services, and he also heard voices in his head.
"He was completely confused." In this state he committed the crime and, among other things, killed three women.
At that time, the refugee's capacity for insight had been abolished.
"There is a high probability that we have a person in front of us (...) who felt controlled."
The Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office assumes that the accused committed the crime out of hatred for Germany.
She wants him permanently in a psychiatric facility.
The pleadings and the verdict in the security procedure are planned for next week.