• Germany.Muere Von Weizsäcker, first president of unified Germany

The man who Tuesday mortally stabbed doctor Fritz von Weizsäcker acted motivated by hatred of former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, whom he said was guilty of knowing the development of lethal toxic substances for the Vietnam War.

Richard von Weizsäcker himself was the victim in 1993 of an attack during a public act for his activity as a manager during the 1960s at Boehringer Ingelheim, when the German chemical and pharmaceutical company supported the American Dow Chemical in the development of the herbicide Agent Orange, remember the media today.

The aggressor, sentenced to six months probation for punching the then president in the face, also condemned Von Weizsäcker for defending his father during the Nuremberg proceedings against Nazi officials after World War II.

The man who on Tuesday ended the life of the son of the former president when he was giving a talk about fatty liver in a clinic in Berlin and injured a policeman who was among the public was admitted yesterday in a psychiatric hospital after determining who suffers an "acute mental illness".

According to a statement from the Prosecutor's Office, Gregor S., 57, accused of murder and attempted murder, acted not for strictly personal reasons , but rather for "a generalized aversion, conditioned by his state, towards the family of the murdered" .

During a conference

The deadly assault took place around 18.50 local time (17.50 GMT) in a conference room of the psychiatry unit of the Schlosspark-Klinik, in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg, where Von Weizsäcker, 59, was acting as chief physician of gastroenterology

The doctor died at the scene, while the injured policeman, 33, who tried to avoid the assault, was taken to another hospital.

According to the newspaper "Bild", Gregor S. said in statements to the police that 30 years ago he was determined to assassinate Richard von Weizsäcker, but when he died four years ago, the son of the former president became his target.

Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015) was president of Germany between 1984 and 1994, and mayor of West Berlin between 1981 and 1984.

Von Weizsäcker said that when he was president, he had knowledge "with great regret" of the development of the orange agent only years after he left Boehringer Ingelheim and said he regretted its use in Vietnam by the United States.

The herbicide was sprayed by US troops for forest defoliation in order to deprive the guerrillas of hiding places.

According to the Red Cross, more than three million Vietnamese to this day suffered the consequences of exposure to the orange agent; In addition, more than 150,000 children were born with deformations.

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