In Munich, an 89-year-old pensioner allegedly fatally injured her friend. There had been an argument earlier, the woman told police on Thursday.
The officers then drove to the 89-year-old’s apartment, where they found the familiar dead body. The victim showed “traces of severe trauma,” it is said. According to initial findings, the woman was murdered in the days before she was found. Initially, no information about the identity was provided.
The pensioner was arrested on Thursday. The investigating judge is expected to decide on Friday whether or not to remand her in custody.
Age unusual
The fact that an 89-year-old is accused of murder is not an everyday occurrence in either Austria or Germany. Most suspects are under the age of 20. According to the Munich University of Applied Sciences, 155,000 suspects in Germany were at least 60 years old in 2019. Most of them are accused of committing theft, followed by insults, minor bodily harm and fraud.
Motives of older offenders
In the autumn of 2020, 620 people over the age of 60 were in prisons in Bavaria. This was investigated by a research team led by Stefan Pohlmann from the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. Among other things, they analyzed documents and interviewed older prisoners. The motives they gave for the crime were, for example, boredom, a desire for excitement, distraction and sensation, but also need, revenge and self-will or mental illness. According to the study, what drives criminals as they get older is “very individual”.
Source: Krone
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