However, the present expertise does not concern the investigation into murder or attempted murder, but rather an attack on the mother that took place after the homicide, the regional court confirmed.
Brutal attack on mother
The main trial for the attack on the mother was opened in the Gray House last December for intentionally causing grievous bodily harm. This trial date had been set long before the boy’s arrest. According to the public prosecutor’s office, on September 18, 2023 – well after the fatal knife attacks on sleeping and defenseless people – the 17-year-old is said to have caused his mother several broken ribs, a bruised skull and hematomas and abrasions all over her body by punching her in the head face and then hit the head and body of the woman who had fallen to the ground.
Request for accommodation
During the first day of the trial, defense attorney Manfred Arbacher-Stöger requested that a psychiatric report be obtained. The lawyer assumed that his client could have grounds for excluding guilt – which the court-appointed expert has now confirmed, according to media reports. For the expert, there is therefore insanity, which is why, in her view, due to a lack of culpability, the requirements for the young person to be placed in a forensic therapeutic center in accordance with Section 21 Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code would be met if the court came to the conclusion that the 17-year-old was his The mother was seriously injured, court spokesman Christoph Zonsics-Kral confirmed on Sunday. The charge is therefore likely to be converted into an application for placement in the so-called prison system. The next hearing will take place on June 18, said Zonsics-Kral.
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However, the reports are still pending in the investigation into two fatal knife attacks on sleeping homeless people and another attack that the victim survived, said spokeswoman for the Vienna public prosecutor’s office, Nina Bussek. It remains to be seen to what extent the current report will be incorporated into the murder investigation. According to court spokesman Zonsics-Kral, the expert report must be specific to the crime or the specific period of the crime. The present expertise initially only relates to the 17-year-old’s psychological state in mid-September 2023. According to the first report, the teenager showed “typical signs of a psychopath” when he attacked his mother.
Specifically looking for victims
After the series of killings in the summer, the 17-year-old turned himself in in December. He was taken to a police station and admitted the crimes. From July 2023, the young man specifically looked for the victims, as the police investigated. He hid the knife in his ankle and wandered through the night covered up. A 56-year-old and a 55-year-old were killed in the knife attacks on the sleeping people. A 51-year-old woman was seriously injured.
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