Status: 02/12/2021 06:34 a.m.
At the beginning of October, a 26-year-old was seriously injured by a man on his way to the Hamburg synagogue. The process that starts today now involves the question of whether the alleged perpetrator is guilty.
The so-called security procedure will probably not take place in public. It is expected that the audience will be excluded at the beginning. The 29-year-old defendant hit the 26-year-old student, who was wearing a kippah, with a folding spade in front of the Hohe Weide synagogue and inflicted severe head injuries. According to the General Prosecutor’s Office, it was an insidious attempted murder in unity with dangerous bodily harm. The accused selected the victim specifically because of his Jewish appearance, said the prosecutor.
Expert opinion recognizes culpability
According to a psychiatric report, the alleged perpetrator is incapable of guilt. According to the result of the assessment, the accused suffered from acute paranoid schizophrenia, accompanied by delusional fears of persecution. These are to be regarded as the trigger for the act. A spokeswoman for the attorney general told NDR 90.3 that the attack was directed against a Jew. The trigger, however, was the offender’s illness.
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“It must be recognized that we are threatened as a Jewish community,” said Stricharz in early January.
-Stricharz: “Name anti-Semitism”
For Philipp Stricharz, the chairman of the Hamburg Jewish Community, there can be no doubt about an anti-Jewish motive. The perpetrator allowed himself to be taken to the synagogue in a taxi and targeted a man with a kippah there. “It must be recognized that we are threatened as a Jewish community,” said Stricharz in early January. How can you prevent anti-Semitic acts in the future if you don’t even call them anti-Semitic, he asked.
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“It must be recognized that we are threatened as a Jewish community,” said Stricharz in early January.
-Stricharz: “Name anti-Semitism”
For Philipp Stricharz, the chairman of the Hamburg Jewish Community, there can be no doubt about an anti-Jewish motive. The perpetrator allowed himself to be taken to the synagogue in a taxi and targeted a man with a kippah there. “It must be recognized that we are threatened as a Jewish community,” said Stricharz in early January. How can you prevent anti-Semitic acts in the future if you don’t even call them anti-Semitic, he asked.
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