Liban M. (26), who stabbed two 20- and 35-year-old men to death in the Oggersheim district of Ludwigshafen on October 18, 2022, has been acquitted. The Somali had also chopped off the hand of a 27-year-old and critically injured him. In doing so, he shouted “Allahu Akbar”.
The First Grand Criminal Chamber of the Frankenthal Regional Court in Rhineland-Palatinate considered it proven that the defendant had committed the first two murders in the street and the third in a drugstore. In each case, he had also taken advantage of the “helplessness and defenselessness” of the victims and thus fulfilled the murder criterion of “insidiousness”.
However, the presiding judge found the asylum seeker, who was shot incapacitated by police during the massacre, not guilty. According to her, he had suffered from acute paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the crime. Therefore, she had to issue an acquittal.
Instead, she ordered the defendant to be placed in a psychiatric hospital. Due to the established illness at the time of the crime, “his ability to control was suspended”. According to Ludwigshafen24, the presiding judge explained that a person who acted without guilt could not be punished for his actions. Therefore, the acquittal, “as painful as it is,” was inevitable. The verdict is not yet final.
According to police, the crime was committed after an argument with his girlfriend about the whereabouts of their children. Afterwards, the African man went berserk and stabbed passers-by indiscriminately.
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