He could have been mentally ill, man who directed a camper van into a crowd in Münster's Old town. It is not known wher he acted with clear intention of injuring or even killing completely foreign women, men and children. Two people died in attack, more than 20 were severely injured. Shortly after car came to a stop, driver n shot himself. His motive? Unknown. Perhaps it will never be clear.
Despite repeated request by police not to speculate on background of Act, many ask mselves what is meant when it is said that 48-year-old presumed driver was mentally conspicuous. 2014 and 2016. The interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Herbert Reul (CDU) also mentioned this during a visit to crime scene on Sunday noon. He pointed out that friends and health officials had known of a psychic instability. The Mirror reported a possible previous suicide attempt by German, who had probably lived in Münster for some time. The news agency DPA writes that it may be a mentally unstable individual perpetrator.
Mentally unstable, this is often case when it comes to acts of individuals that many cannot grasp. It is important to stress that most people who suffer from or have overcome mental illness are in rarest cases a danger to ors. In course of his life, almost every human being is affected at least once by a mental instability, wher it is suffering from depression, anxiety disorder or addiction, or that friends or relatives are affected.
Amokfahrt, stop, extended suicide?First of all, it is difficult to define what exactly happened in Münster. Was it a Amoktat, a stop, an extended suicide, a murder? The events bear traits of all se possible forms of self-killing. According to previous findings, a Amoktat seems to be most plausible. Whoever commits m is primarily driven by violence, by aggressions that have dammed up. The majority of male offenders usually attack firearms. They want to kill arbitrarily and plan ir own death. Anyone who runs amok, but is usually already conspicuous before, withdraws, may even make hints. Above all, however, such people plan intensively ir plans.
© Jakob Börner Sven Stockrahm Deputy head of Department of Knowledge and Digital, time online for author pageIf it is true, as mirror writes, that suspects has ever tried to take life, question arises as to why he may have included or people in his plans in this way. It is unclear to what extent approximately a dozen fireworks, fright pistol and murder weapon of driver in Münster indicate a Amoktat.
The investigators in Münster assume that driver of minibus was acting alone. There is currently no evidence of a politically motivated background or or perpetrators, said chief prosecutor of Münster, Elke Adomeit, on Sunday. Especially for an Islamist attack "nothing at moment," said interior Minister Reul already on Saturday evening. It is refore exceptionally important to mention that suspects is a German citizen, probably born in Sauerland and not immigrated to Germany.
"No evidence of stronger criminal intensity"The police had been known to suspects for minor offences, said prosecutor Adomeit. However, procedures of 2015 and 2016 were all discontinued. This was about a threat, damage to property, traffic unfallflucht and fraud. So far one has "but no clues to a stronger criminal intensity," said Adomeit.
Against hyposis that this could be an extended suicide, it says that re are no connections between perpetrators and victims. Close relationships between people who not only plan ir own deaths, but also those of ors, are typical. The person committing suicide, in doing so, puts ir or victims in a way that y agree to die with it.
If someone kills ors in knowledge that y do not want to die, speak criminologists of murder. Some of relationships are examples: a person kills his or her partner because he or she wants to separate. Sometimes re are or relatives or close friends involved. But again, crucial point is that perpetrator knows his victims well and has an emotional attachment to m.
Date Of Update: 09 April 2018, 12:03
