Suspect admitted to psychiatric hospital after assault on Giffey | EUROtoday

The 74-year-old, who is claimed to have attacked Berlin's Senator for Economic Affairs Giffey, is now in a psychiatric hospital. This is what the general public prosecutor defined. The investigation into the motive for the crime continues.

After the assault on Berlin's Economics Senator Franziska Giffey, the 74-year-old suspect was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

The Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office introduced on the net service

The man had beforehand been arrested. The police and public prosecutor's workplace mentioned there have been “evidences of mental illness” within the man. There is already “police intelligence from the area of ​​state security and hate crime” in opposition to him.

The investigation into the suspect's motive was nonetheless ongoing. The man's condo was due to this fact searched.

“Increasing fair game culture”

The man is claimed to have attacked the SPD politician Giffey from behind with a bag with laborious contents on Tuesday afternoon in a library within the Rudow district. The former Governing Mayor of Berlin and former Federal Minister for Family Affairs was hit within the head and neck and went to a hospital for outpatient remedy of the headache and neck ache.

The morning after the assault, Giffey commented on the incident. She is doing nicely, however she remains to be fearful and shocked by “the increasing fair game culture with which people who are politically active and committed in our country are increasingly exposed to supposedly justified and tolerable attacks,” she wrote on Instagram.