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Status: 05.10.2020 4:56 pm
After the attack on a Jewish student in front of the Hamburg synagogue, the 29-year-old suspect is admitted to a psychiatric facility.
An investigating judge issued the corresponding placement order on Monday, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said. The man is charged with attempted murder along with dangerous bodily injury. The Attorney General’s Office, which has taken over the investigation, assumes an anti-Semitic act.
VIDEO: Attack on Jewish Students: Ongoing Investigations (4 min)
Swastika note
On Sunday, in a camouflage suit in front of the Hohe Weide synagogue in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, the man hit a 26-year-old Jewish student with a folding shovel and inflicted serious head injuries. Hamburg police confirmed that the attacker had a piece of paper with a swastika in it during the attack. They also found him a pocket knife. According to the police, the German-Kazakh had already received psychiatric treatment. He is said to have behaved strangely after the attack on the Jewish student and remained rigid until the police overpowered him.
Police: no obvious evidence of right-wing belief
People put flowers and candles in front of the synagogue.
It can be assumed that the suspect committed the act of mental illness in a state of considerable limitation or without any fault, said the spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Office. According to police, the man had already left an extremely confused impression when he was arrested on Sunday. As could be learned from security circles, the man was still living in Berlin last year in a temporary residence for Jewish returnees, refugees and immigrants. It is said that there was an incident involving a knife. The 29-year-old apparently lived in Hamburg more recently. The man’s apartment in Langenhorn district was searched and data carriers seized. During the search, however, no obvious evidence of the attacker’s correct attitude was found, police said. The protected computer is still being evaluated.
Candles and flowers
The student who wanted to celebrate the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles in the synagogue with other parishioners is better now. In front of the synagogue, the neighbors placed candles and flowers. On a sheet of paper it says: “For an open and tolerant society. Anti-Semitism has no place here.”
Both the military clothing and the date of the attack remind us of the attack on the Halle an der Saale synagogue almost a year ago. There, a heavily armed right-wing radical tried to break into the synagogue on the most important Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, was celebrated this Sunday, which immediately follows Yom Kippur on the Jewish calendar.
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