After the knife attack in Würzburg, which left three dead and several injured, the Hessian state chairman of the Association of German Criminal Investigators, Dirk Peglow, called for a stronger focus on psychologically conspicuous violent criminals - especially in cases in which there is also suspicion of extremist tendencies.
Peglow told the FAZ that there had been several cases in Hesse in which perpetrators had appeared aggressively due to a mental disorder.
The police have not yet been able to keep these people in focus.
"Police must be able to get an idea"
In view of the large number of cases and the severity of the offenses, it must be considered whether it would not be helpful to exchange information with psychiatrists and psychotherapists while maintaining confidentiality.
“What we need is a radar system.
The police must be able to get an idea of suspicious people before they commit serious acts of violence. "
In Frankfurt alone, there have been two homicides in recent years in which the perpetrators are said to have been mentally ill: on the one hand at the main train station, where an Eritrean who had entered Switzerland as a refugee and finally traveled on to Frankfurt, a boy and his Mother came across an approaching ICE, the boy died. On the other hand, in a knife attack in the station district with one dead and two seriously injured. This perpetrator, about whom the authorities did not provide any further information about the origin, had only been released from psychiatry a few days earlier.