An already detained Berlin palliative doctor would have killed even more people than previously assumed. After further investigations, the office of the public attorney Van Berlin currently accepts at least 15 victims and has established accusations for murder, as a spokesperson for the authority has announced.
After months of investigation, the public prosecutor sees low motives and insidies as a murder function, such as a spokesperson for the announced authority. This had initially mentioned “feast for murder” as a background for the doctor’s actions.
Corpses were dug up
The accused palliative doctor has been in custody since August 2024. At that time, the public prosecutor had hired four victims. In the course of the investigation, in which corpses were also excavated and investigated by forensic doctors, the number of alleged victims rose: only to eight, then to ten – now the researchers from 15 are going on. The number could continue to increase because the investigation continues, is said.
Nevertheless, the case with the indictment should now come to the Berlin regional court. At the same time, a research group of the murder department of Murder in the Berlin state of Criminal Police (LKA) evaluates further documents from the medical patients. Comments from others – such as nursing services – also play a role.
Patients administered “fatal mixture”
The doctor is said to have taken the actions for a nursing service as part of his work. Palliative doctors accompany seriously ill people to relieve their pain. According to the public prosecutor, the patients involved were not in an acute period of death at the time of crime.
The previously known deaths go back to 2021. According to the public prosecutor, the 40-year-old in September 2021 would have given a fatal mix of different medicines to kill them without medical indication. So in later cases it was said.
The doctor, who worked in various federal states, initially received the sights of the researchers because of four cases in the period from 11 June to 24 July 2024. During this time he would have killed four people between the ages of 72 and 94 in their apartments in Berlin.
Burning in patients causing research
The studies were activated by the fires that the doctor would have said to cover the murders. The police determined the result of a arson. The doctor came into the picture more and more. According to the public prosecutor, the nursing service for which the suspect had worked.
Source: Krone
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