Rampage in Düsseldorf

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During the rampage in Düsseldorf on March 9, 2017, a man in Düsseldorf injured nine people with an ax, some seriously. The suspect began the ax attacks in a train on line S 28 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr and continued them outside the train in Düsseldorf Central Station . The investigative authorities issued statements after the fact, according to which there was no evidence of an extremist or Islamist motive of the suspect. Rather, it is about "the act of a mentally ill".

Sequence of events

In the passenger compartment of a car on the S 28 S-Bahn, the suspect began attacking strangers with an ax at around 8:50 p.m. One of the passengers managed to push the suspect off the train onto the platform. The driver then closed the doors of the train, whereupon the suspect began to bang on the door. When he couldn't get back on the train, he attacked people on the main station with an ax.

The perpetrator was seriously injured when, after the attack on the main train station, he ran across the tracks while fleeing from the police and then jumped several meters down from a bridge onto a street.

The main station was cordoned off by the police for several hours.

Perpetrator

The perpetrator is 36-year-old Fatmir H., an asylum seeker from Kosovo who was living in Wuppertal at the time of the crime . He said he had heard voices ordering him to do so. It was clear to him during the act that he was doing wrong and therefore wanted to be shot by the police.

The perpetrator was declared incompetent in court due to his paranoid schizophrenia . He was permanently placed in the closed psychiatric ward.

Victim

A total of nine people were injured by the ax attack, four of them with "severe head injuries". The injured were between 13 and 50 years old and came from Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Solingen, Mettmann and Italy.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Uwe-Jens Ruhnau: Ax attack on Thursday evening: We know that so far about the rampage at Düsseldorf Central Station. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: ax attack in Düsseldorf: alleged perpetrator probably psychologically unstable - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Panorama. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ F. Hein, R. Kowalewsky, H. Pawlitzki, UJ Ruhnau, C. Schwerdtfeger: rampage at the main station in Düsseldorf . Suspect was already in a psychiatric clinic. In: Rheinische Post . March 10, 2017 ( rp-online.de [accessed June 22, 2017] with a link to the PK protocol).
  4. ↑ a b c Ax attack in Düsseldorf: Suspect comes from Kosovo - ten people injured . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . ( ksta.de [accessed on March 25, 2017]).
  5. ↑ FOCUS Online: Man with ax injured people in Düsseldorf main station . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on March 25, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Ax attacker is permanently in closed psychiatry . In: Rheinische Post . ( rp-online.de [accessed on October 5, 2017]).