The psychiatric expert attested that the accused had a personality disorder with dissocial, passive-aggressive and narcissistic traits in the process of threatening letters from "NSU 2.0" on Monday, but did not see the conditions for incapacity to be met.

In the case of Alexander M., it was not a pathological mental disorder within the meaning of the criminal code, said the psychiatrist before the Frankfurt district court.

Anna Sophia Lang

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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According to this, only someone who commits the crime because of a pathological mental disorder, a profound disturbance of consciousness, an intellectual disability or another serious mental disorder “is unable to see the wrong of the act or to act according to this insight” acts without guilt.

Extensive criminal past

The expert cited a clear self-esteem problem, an inflated self-image, insufficient reflection on one's own behavior, lack of empathy and the ability to deal with conflicts as well as a life as a loner as essential characteristics of the personality disorder of the accused.

He behaves inconsiderately and irresponsibly, has a low tolerance for frustration, is suddenly aggressive and short-tempered and does not blame himself for failures in his life, but blames others for them.

He has no self-critical distance to his criminal past: He admits to some of the crimes he committed in the past – such as goods fraud in the 1990s, which is why he was imprisoned in his hometown of Berlin until 2000, insults or physical injuries – but he downplays everything .

He justified the fact that he started fraudulent goods again after his release from prison by saying that after the reunification he had not been able to find a job with the computer skills he had acquired in the GDR, so he ultimately had to earn money.

Alexander M., who is highly intelligent, lacks a sense of wrongdoing, and he rather boasts about his assertiveness, said the expert.

He disregards authority figures.

M. wear self-confidence to the outside world.

He seems arrogant, cheerful, relaxed, as if none of this really concerns him, and flirts with himself as Hallodri, who doesn't follow the rules and is callous.

But don't wear it internally.

So he deceives with his self-promotion about his "rather unsuccessful life".

He has hardly any sustainable ties, he refuses social tasks and norms.

He only has closer contact with his mother, who, according to her own statements, still pays the unemployed man's rent and with whom he spoke on the phone every day until his arrest.

His last relationship with a woman ended three years ago, so the expert cannot assume that it was a viable relationship.

Instead, the defendant spent most of his time on the Internet, where he said he played chess for four to six hours a day: blitz chess, because the normal game was too boring for him.

M. said about himself that he enjoyed “working blue five days a week” and living the day.

He positioned himself politically "rather on the right" and formulated that he had "considerable doubts as to whether the Third Reich was really right" - the GDR was a continuation of it.

Pleas will follow in early October

The report was based on observations from the trial, conversations between the psychiatrist and the accused in custody and reports from other criminal proceedings since 1995, among other things. There was also talk of self-centeredness, external blame, low frustration tolerance, aggression, mood swings and lack of impulse control and inability to submit.

Alexander M., who expressed his dissatisfaction with the report on Monday in the form of gestures and heckling, then explained, at least with the conclusion that he had no mental illness and was therefore not incapacitated, to be "agreed".

Previously, he had interjected that in one of the interviews for the older expert opinions he had "only told nonsense" so as not to have to go to prison - and not to be obliged "by the office" to do "one-euro jobs".

It is not true that he has no social contacts, he just did not tell about it because it is a private matter and the people are all "convicted and criminal".

The trial of the series of threatening letters began in February.

On Monday, the presiding judge announced that, according to current planning, the pleadings should be held at the beginning of October.