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Munich (dpa) - The trial against an Alzheimer's patient who is said to have raped and murdered a roommate in an old people's home begins today at the Munich II district court.
The public prosecutor's office accuses the 88-year-old man of brutally attacking a roommate who is also suffering from dementia in a home in the Miesbach district.
He is said to have raped the bedridden woman in her room and beat him so badly that she later died of pneumonia in the hospital - caused by inhaled blood.
The man is said to have broken several ribs.
The 88-year-old is considered to be incapable of guilt because of his illness.
If convicted, he faces no prison sentence, but permanent placement in a closed psychiatric hospital.
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