Red Adidas T-shirt, dark brown eyes, a fashionable short haircut. Salahuddin B. (27) looks like a normal young man. But that can change within seconds!
The rejected asylum seeker has been standing before the Dortmund jury court since Wednesday on charges of attempted murder in two cases, dangerous bodily harm and resistance against law enforcement officers. He is ill and is to be permanently placed in a closed psychiatric ward.
“He suffers from a paranoid-hallucinatory psychosis. He is dangerous to the general public,” says public prosecutor Henner Kruse (50).
The Afghan-born man first attracted attention on December 7. According to the application, he rushed into his boss’s office with a kitchen knife, chased him until he was stopped by a co-worker, using a fire extinguisher. Three days later, the knifeman came back – but failed at the locked glass door.
On February 2,22, B. apparently went berserk. After morning prayers at 8 a.m., he entered the mosque on Uhlandstraße in Dortmund. Nebenklage representative Henriette Lyndian (57): “He greeted my client as usual, then stabbed him in the direction of the stomach with a knife.” The victim (32) suffered severe defensive injuries to his hands. The moment of fear of death still troubles him today.
Two and a half hours later, when patrol cars were in search of the mosque attacker, B. was walking with an acquaintance (24). Suddenly, he allegedly stabbed him in the stomach on a pavement. Kruse: “The stab wounds in the abdomen injured the liver, an artery and the small intestine. His life could only be saved by an emergency operation.”
The victim was in hospital for three weeks. Lawyer Birgit Schwipp assists the victim. She says: “He still cannot understand why B. did this to him. He hopes to get an answer to this question in the trial.”
After the attack on his boss, Salahuddin B. (tolerated in Germany since May 12, 2017) was admitted to the forensic hospital. However, he was later able to release himself from there. After his arrest, the mentally ill perpetrator could not be restrained: He punched the police doctor in the face, and when the arrest warrant was announced, four judicial officers had to restrain him.
In the meantime, he seems to be recovering. In court, only his leg twitched permanently, he followed the trial attentively. The verdict is due on August 29.
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