Murder victims from Bad Leonfelden and perpetrators lived in neighboring towns in Upper Austria. However, the young Mühlviertler only knew each other for a short time and because their social origins are so different, friends wonder: “Why were those two together?” Experts doubt gambling addiction and schizophrenia as possible triggers.
‘Why did Stefanie travel with Samuel? They came from different worlds!” In Schwertberg, the home community of Stefanie R. (19) and in the neighboring hometown of Samuel Z. (18), this question is omnipresent. The popular HTL model student from an entrepreneurial family and the unemployed, financially disadvantaged car freak that former classmates call the ‘victim type’.
Self-identified as a compulsive gambler
A mutual friend brought them together three weeks ago. When Samuel picked up Stefanie on Saturday evening, the parents did not know who the children were going where with. It was common knowledge that Samuel, who was filmed stealing money from the village shop, loved being at the casino in the Czech Republic. He describes himself as a compulsive gambler.
Suffered from schizophrenia
“The word addiction should not be used lightly. It is a disease that develops over months, usually years. Just because someone plays a lot for a while and loses a lot does not mean that they are immediately addicted,” says Primar Kurosch Yazdi from the Neuromed Campus in Linz. Because Samuel has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, he says: “Schizophrenics are no more prone to gambling than other people.”
Due to the illness, a decision on detention or detention in forensic psychiatry will be made on Tuesday. “Anyone who suffers from schizophrenia does not have a split personality and is not automatically dangerous,” says psychiatric primary care Beatrix Lugmayer of the hospital in Vöcklabruck. The brains of sick people transmit too much information. As a result, patients often have perceptions and experiences that those around them don’t realize. The brain searches for explanations and often finds absurd connections that seem logical to the person concerned. Difficulty concentrating, anxiety disorders and delusions are possible symptoms.
That Samuel panicked, hit Stefanie during an argument, dragged her out of the car when she tried to flee with it, but got stuck backwards in the snow and then hit her with the snow pole, is not necessarily due to schizophrenia.
Source: Krone
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