The alleged attacker from Ravensburg arrives in psychiatry


Ravensburg (dpa) – After the knife attack in the center of Ravensburg with three seriously injured, the alleged culprit arrived in a psychiatric institution.

Instead of an arrest warrant, a so-called warrant has been issued. The police said that the Afghan asylum seeker, according to an expert, suffers from a profound psychiatric illness. He had been in hospital therapy several times. The background should also have been a quarrel with a work colleague.

The alleged aggressor is 21 years old according to current discoveries, as the police said. The man is accused of attempted murder and dangerous assault. However, his guilt was excluded or significantly reduced based on the opinion of the preliminary experts. The 21-year-old stabbed three people in the center of Ravensburg on Friday and was subsequently arrested.

Prosecutor Karl-Josef Diehl told the previous ones, the man had wanted to make a dispute with a colleague and asked him to come to Marienplatz. The reason: he had felt teased because of the comments of his colleagues. In the morning, the twenty-one bought a big kitchen knife and went to Marienplatz. When his colleague did not come, the man "suddenly and as part of a psychotic experience" stabbed two Syrian asylum seekers.

So he attacked a third man who was not hurt. A little later, a 52-year-old has faced the accused outside in a restaurant. The suspect also inflicted cut injuries on this man. According to Diehl, the twenty-one, who has been in Germany since 2016, has so far shown no aggression towards others.

The asylum seeker was also asked thanks to the Mayor of Ravensburg, Daniel Rapp (CDU). According to the investigators, the politician met the alleged perpetrator near the crime scene and told him to drop the knife, which he did.



Rapp explained that because the witnesses had stumbled upon him "completely upset", he had gone to the crime scene. "Then suddenly the culprit stopped in front of me with the knife covered in blood and threatened me, I said then: he should put the knife on the ground."

His efforts may have saved lives, said Baden-Württemberg Integration Minister, Manne Lucha (Greens). "Sometimes it takes people who do not look elsewhere, who are courageous, who intervene quickly and courageously to avoid worse things.The Lord Mayor of Ravensburg has shown this courage and showed courage in his own right," he praised the Minister of the Interior Thomas Strobl (CDU).

Integration Minister Lucha, who lives in Ravensburg, has invited citizens to stay together. "We are not divorced from people who are abusing this terrible act for political purposes and pouring hatred and malice on all those who have sided and support cohesion in this city".

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