A Tunisian migrant is on trial for nearly stabbing his roommate to death, also a Tunisian migrant, after claiming the roommate tried to rape him. The Tunisian already admitted during his trial that he wanted to kill the man but said that the attacked was justified under Islamic law due to the roommate’s rape attempt.
The 19-year-old, who was in an asylum center in Trossingen on Gottlieb-Daimler-Strasse when the attack took place on May 1, stabbed his roommate unexpectedly in the stomach with a kitchen knife in order to kill him. He also stabbed the man in the back. The victim’s life was only saved due to emergency surgery.
The alleged perpetrator said that his roommate drugged him and raped him while he was sleeping, but then claimed it was only an “attempted” rape. He said there was semen found on his right pant leg and then said it was on his left pant leg, but that appears to be his only claim to any evidence that his roommate did anything sexual.
Not only does the victim, 34, deny that he ever raped his roommate, but said that he came to Germany to receive medical treatment after a serious traffic accident in Tunisia. Now, he has disabilities from the accident and wounds from the stabbing attack.
“He wanted to kill me,” said the victim. He said he and the alleged stabber had gotten along well before the attack, which is why he cannot comprehend why he was targeted.
The perpetrator, however, showed no guilt for the stabbing, according to Schwäbische newspaper. The paper wrote that he said that “a Muslim is allowed do that under these circumstances,” citing the alleged rape.
Now, the youth section of the Rottweil Regional Court has placed the perpetrator in a closed psychiatric ward due to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. However, the reporter for Schwäbische appears to raise questions about the psychiatric diagnosis, saying the man “patiently, succinctly, and clearly” answered questions for three hours in court “with an apparently clear mind.”
During his testimony, the man said, “I am not sick.” He also added that “I grew up completely normally.”
However, during the testimony, he also admitted that he did not make it past the seventh grade despite trying three times. He was also beaten by his father, has no vocational training, and has tried numerous jobs, including hairdressing and working as a sailor, with each position ending in failure.
He paid a lot of money to a smuggler to come to Germany for “a better life.” It should be noted that Tunisia is not a country at war, and asylum requests from migrants from the country are almost always denied. In many cases, the migrant ends up staying in Germany anyway due to difficulties managing deportations.
The man also came to Germany without knowledge of German or English and with no high school degree. He made it to the Italian island of Lampedusa after paying a smuggler €1,000. He arrived in Germany’s Freiburg in August 2023 and was transferred to different facilities. After a week in Trossingen, there were already outbursts of regular violence from the Tunisian.