Admission to the institution – “Angels” advised him to attack strangers with a knife

“Maybe it was almost lucky that he met me,” the victim muses. “I was able to fight back and even contain him. It’s hard to imagine how something like this could end up when it hits an elderly, perhaps helpless person.” Says the father-to-be, a tram driver for Wiener Linien, who was on his way to work on Mother’s Day. About the empty Meidlinger Markt. “The man kindly wished me good morning and asked how I was doing. I also responded politely, thinking maybe he’s asking for directions or something.”

“Never kill, only hurt”
But no – the attacker suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed. In the thigh, in the upper arm of the completely unknown to him. Before the jury – chaired by Judge Stefan Apostol – in Vienna, the 35-year-old Turk is now trying to put things in perspective: “I never wanted to kill, only hurt.”

Suspect does not believe in his mental disorder
But Mr Rat quoted from police reports immediately after the crime: “You fought back and yelled that you had to finish it. That you have to find someone else to kill so you can become a man.” – “The angels told me that.” – “What if someone tells you that angels don’t exist, that you only exist in your imagination?” – “I don’t think it’s a mental disorder. What happened was already true!”

Dedication to an institution for mentally abnormal lawbreakers
The dialogue with the judge shows his intransigence with his illness, a paranoid schizophrenia, for which he is now receiving depot injections. The charge of attempted murder was unanimous.