Almost seven months after a fatal knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, the perpetrator was admitted to the closed psychiatric ward on Friday for an indefinite period.
The man suffering from delusions stabbed a guest lecturer on June 10, 2022 and injured three students, some of them life-threateningly.
The act was triggered by delusions.
According to the verdict of the Dortmund jury, the 34-year-old German was convinced that everyone at the university belonged to a clan that wanted to kill him.
He wanted revenge for that.
The guest lecturer was sitting in a lecture hall when the perpetrator suddenly stormed in and stabbed her in the chest with a knife.
The 30-year-old died in hospital the next day.
During the process, the 34-year-old explained that all of the people involved were accidental victims.
The judges assessed the acts as manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm.
A prison sentence was out of the question because of the attested paranoid schizophrenia.
The 34-year-old is considered guilty.
The judgment is not final.
(Az: 39 Ks 23/22)