A 24-year-old boy from Vienna beat his mother with a cast-iron armchair until it broke. A ‘mafia-like structure’ in his head allegedly ordered him to do so. “This is one of the most dangerous symptoms,” the court psychiatrist advises placement. It was the mother who first encouraged her son to stop taking his medication.
“My client did everything that is normal for someone in their early twenties” – he went to school, trained as a sculptor and continued this at university. Of course, he also experimented with alcohol and drugs, the 24-year-old’s lawyer explained. And at some point, the young Viennese was no longer ‘normal’.
Mother talked him out of his medication
“I had been walking around psychotically for a year,” he recalled to the jury at the Vienna Regional Court. He had been treated repeatedly and was also given medication. “But I stopped taking them because my mother convinced me that they were unhealthy.”
And that ended fatally for the 61-year-old: on January 19, her own son tried to kill her. ‘I wanted to strangle her first. Then I took a chair. Then I saw blood.’ The 24-year-old hit his mother several times with a cast-iron chair, nearly killing her. Even a chair leg broke off. The result: a bruised skull, a crack in the skull bone and numerous fractures in the face.
‘Mafia-like structures in my head’
The person concerned told the chairman that voices had ordered him to do so. “I was threatened by mafia-like structures in my head.” A neighbor alerted the emergency services. “What would have happened if the police hadn’t come?” asks Mrs. Rat. “I’d rather not imagine that,” replies the young Viennese.
Pathological mother-son relationship
Forensic psychiatrist Sigrun Roßmanith confirmed a severe form of paranoid schizophrenia: “One of the most dangerous symptoms is that you hear voices. The inner reality mixes with the outer and he cannot escape from it. That is the fatal thing.” In addition, there is a pathological mother-son relationship: “You cannot imagine a more dangerous environment for someone suffering from schizophrenia.”
Because the 24-year-old was mentally ill due to his illness at the time of the attempted murder, he is placed in a forensic therapeutic center.
Source: Krone
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