Incredulous amazement in the trial of the knife attacker of Würzburg. The Somali attacked with a stolen knife in June, killing three women and injuring several people, some of them fatally. According to a new expert opinion, the Somali was “incapable of guilt” at the time of the attack. This has consequences for his trial. Authorities are now struggling with the decision to deport him.
In the meantime, the African has recovered, his lawyer reports.Four months after he killed three women in Würzburg city centre, Abdirahman Jibril A. is said to be ” in control of his mental faculties” again. The suspected Somali is currently being held in a psychiatric hospital in Bavaria by order of the local court. There, the doctors had ” composed such a medication” that a reasonable conversation with A. was possible again in the meantime. However, this was not the situation at the time of the insane act. In mid-July, the Munich General Public Prosecutor’s Office commissioned two experts to draw up expert reports. They conducted so-called exploratory talks with the Somali in the clinic. As reported by the newspaper “Welt”, the experts’ findings are essentially the same as the first preliminary report from the summer. So “incapable of guilt”. On the day of the crime, he claims to have heard voices; according to a witness statement, he is said to have talked to birds.
It is expected that by the end of the year, the Attorney General’s Office will apply for the permanent placement of the accused in a closed ward of a psychiatric hospital, the statement said. The trial was a much-discussed borderline case from the beginning. Witnesses spoke of “Allahu Akbar” shouts by the perpetrator.
However, the investigators do not want to have evidence for a political motive of the devout Muslim. The police did not find any Islamist-related material on the suspect’s mobile phone or in his flat. Should the perpetrator of the Würzburg attack be convicted of a crime, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) would examine the withdrawal of his refugee status and the competent foreigners authority would issue a deportation order, according to the spokesperson. After a revocation, a deportation would “in principle be legally possible”.
“According to section 53 (3b) of the Residence Act, expulsion is only permissible if a foreigner has committed a serious criminal offence or if he poses a danger to the general public or the security of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
In view of the facts, it could be assumed that these conditions were fulfilled in the case of Jibril A., “regardless of the fact that he may be judged to be incapable of guilt.”
Hans-Jochen Schrepfer, the Somali’s lawyer, did not want to give “any prognosis” on the question of a possible deportation when asked by the newspaper “Die Welt”. In the past weeks, his client could finally be questioned by investigators after treatment in the clinic. Schrepfer describes A.’s statements as “very reflective”: “He expressed his regret about the fate of his victims and explained his subjective view.”