Horror in Wangen: the process of the shocking knife attack

Von NAG Redaktion

An incident that shook the whole country: At the beginning of April, a 34-year-old man from Syria attacked a little girl in a supermarket in cheeks with a kitchen knife. The attack on the four -year -old led to a life -threatening injury that made immediate emergency operation necessary. The tragic event caused nationwide a stir and horrified people far beyond the limits of the city in the Allgäu, as numerous reports show.

In the courtroom of the Ravensburg Regional Court, everyone was looking at the accused this morning. The man, who also has a Dutch passport, appeared in leisure clothes and first held his hands in front of his face. During the negotiations to clarify the complex background of the crime, an interpreter supported a sometimes challenging undertaking, as it turned out in the course of the process.

stressful factors and psychiatric assessment

The public prosecutor, represented by chief prosecutor Christine Weiss, made the accusation of attempted murder with the characteristic of the insidents against the accused. According to the indictment, the crime occurred on April 3 in a Norma branch in Zeppelinstrasse, where the man suddenly attacked the girl and injured seriously. The 34-year-old, in whom paranoid schizophrenia was diagnosed, is said to have been unable to guilt at the time of the crime. A security procedure was sought because further illegal actions can be expected by the man.

The perpetrator's life path initially reveals little signs of such a development. Growing up in an orderly family environment in Syria, the accused specialized in the IT area, but often remained unemployed or took on auxiliary jobs. In 2015 he came across the Balkan route to the Netherlands, where he was later naturalized. Interestingly, he only started to deal with Islam more intensively there, an aspect that was always an issue in the process of the process.

The fateful day in the supermarket

On the morning of April 3rd it happened: The accused took a bag with a black kitchen knife and went to the supermarket. There he stabbed the little girl who was in front of the offers with his mother. The mother, who appeared in the court as a witness, broke out several times in her statement when she described the incident. She remembered how she picked up the hand of the perpetrator when he put on, and like a courageous customer, Tobias faster, intervention and the knife could be secured.

Tobias Schnelle, who is considered a lifesaver of the girl, described his commitment to court: alarmed by the children's scream, he confronted the attacker, took the knife from him and informed the police. This was able to arrest the perpetrator shortly afterwards, his arrest was without resistance. At the time of the arrest, neither faster nor the police had precise information about the background of the crime.

According to information from www.schwaebische.de To this day under the consequences of the attack. The four -year -old daughter is physically recovered again, but mental scars speak a different language. The fear of foreign men has remained, and the parents of the little ones also find it difficult to go back to their everyday life.