A normal day off for Mario G. looked like this: get up at seven, go to the gas station, buy a bottle of vodka, Desperados for dessert, go back to the hotel, drink, Instagram, sleep.

From 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. RTL2, shower, take a taxi to the hospital, shift starts at 9 p.m.

There was variety when G. went to the pub to watch football at the weekend, then in the afternoon it was 60 to 70 shots of Jägermeister (the expert will calculate it to be 1.5 liters), followed by seven to eight Beck's.

Karen Truscheit

Editor in the “Germany and the World” department.

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The accused G., a trained geriatric nurse with short-cropped hair and shaved sides, diligently lists his usual everyday amounts of alcohol on Tuesday, as well as the number of tablets (“about eight to ten”) that were “always added”: sedatives and opiates.

The chairman asks how he tolerated all this.

"Well, I'm in training," says G., not without pride.

He will later add an explanation: "Two meters, 120 kilograms." Alcohol, pills and cocaine have shaped his life for a long time since he was no longer a youth football coach.

"There was no day without alcohol." The message behind it seems clear: the devil made schnapps to spoil it.

The orderly wanted peace and quiet after his excesses while working in the hospital

The public prosecutor's office has a different focus.

Alcohol use is mentioned in the indictment, in the context of a trait of murder.

According to the public prosecutor, G. simply wanted to be left alone after his alcohol excesses while working in the hospital.

That is why G. administered sedatives and opiates, among other things, to eight seriously ill patients for whom he was responsible in the guard room of the neurosurgical ward of the Munich Klinikum Rechts der Isar.

He wanted to keep her quiet (a base motive) so as not to have to take care of her.

So he could then “rest” or deal with his mobile phone.

All patients experienced deterioration in health

five of them therefore had to go to the intensive care unit – among them was the then 90-year-old writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Two patients did not survive the medication.

Mario G. is therefore accused of two counts of murder and attempted murder in six cases.

G. admits the crimes on Tuesday.

"That's exactly what was read out." His intention was never to "put someone in danger of dying".

He wanted to calm her down because he "consumed a lot of alcohol".

"I am sincerely sorry."

His patients required special care and attention

Mario G. has been employed as a nurse at Klinikum Rechts der Isar since July 2020.

Previously unemployed, he had applied to a temporary work agency.

He actually wanted to work in Austria: "But that wasn't possible, because I had a conviction for theft." The temporary employment agency therefore knew that G. was "only" a geriatric nurse - the hospital, however, did not.

He did not have to show a certificate, he had told the nursing management that he had previously worked at the University Hospital in Essen.

"But that wasn't true." After a short time in the normal ward, he was put in charge of shifts in two guard rooms, a kind of transition ward between the normal and intensive care wards.

The patients required special care and attention.

Such as an 80-year-old patient who gave G. August 22, 2020 between 21.

According to the indictment, between 50 a.m. and 10 p.m. "at least two ampoules each of diazepam and lorazepan and at least one ampule of tramadol a 100 mg".

The man had to be intubated due to the administration of the sedative and the opiate and was admitted to the intensive care unit at 10:25 p.m.

He died six days later.

On October 28, an 89-year-old man received several vials of opiates and sedatives in G.'s monitoring room.

The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit at 11:26 a.m., he died on November 13.

According to the indictment, on November 7, Mario G. administered Enzensberger “an unknown amount of the enzodiazepine lorazepam” to the patient Enzensberger between 7 a.m. and 10:22 a.m. in order to achieve a “sedating effect” on him.

Since this did not occur as desired, G. gave another sedative.