A 25-year-old construction worker from Syria cut the neck of a colleague in Burgenland with a Stanley knife. He believed that the Hungarian was a bad person and belonged to a Kurdish clan. He didn’t even know him.
The man in the dock has had asylum status in Austria for three years. The Syrian (25), who does not speak a word of German, worked as a construction worker before he was arrested on October 14. Without warning, he used a Stanley knife to cut the neck of a Hungarian colleague (35), whom he had never seen before, in Neusiedl am See and cut off the bone at the end of his little finger.
Not healthy at the time of the crime
However, the charge does not concern attempted murder, because detailed investigation showed that the man was not of sound mind at the time of the crime. He is said to suffer from a serious, persistent condition called paranoid schizophrenia. The jury trial will only concern whether the 25-year-old should be placed in a forensic therapeutic center. Even before the Syrian starts to describe what happened, he answers “yes” to chairman Karin Lückl’s question whether he agrees to be informed.
“Different person” since the war in the Middle East
The colleague was on the phone when he was attacked from behind by the attacker. “Voices in my head told me he was a bad person and that I should stab him,” said the aggressor, who had been hospitalized for a month due to psychological problems. “After I was discharged from the hospital, I stopped taking the medication because I felt good again.”
The foreman states that the 25-year-old was a quiet, unobtrusive colleague until war broke out in the Middle East. “Then something happened to him. He continually says, “Judah is not good!” as he chattered to himself, he was a different person. Before the crime happened, I gave him an extra day off.”
Instruction is legally binding
Because, according to the court psychiatrist, the Syrian is “incapable of seeing injustice” and there is a good chance that similar acts will be committed within a short time, the jury decided to commit him. The judgment is final.
Source: Krone
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