Germany: Muslim migrant tears off 79-year-old’s cross, beats several people to death, is sent to psych hospital
Sep 19, 2024 9:30 am
By Robert Spencer
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He gets sent to a psychiatric hospital because German authorities do not recognize the existence of Islamic jihad. Once that is off the table, the only way they can explain behavior of this kind is by claiming that he is crazy.
“Syrian repeat offender (27) tears off pensioner’s Christ cross and is sent to a psychiatric hospital,” translated from “Syrischer Intensivtäter (27) reißt Rentner Christus-Kreuz ab und kommt in Psychiatrie,” FOCUS Online, September 16, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):
In Gera, Thuringia, the repeat offender Rasem A. from Syria tore a Christ cross from the neck of a 79-year-old in broad daylight. He later beat several people to death. FOCUS online knows the criminal record of the migrant, who has been in prison several times.
On June 5, 2024, a brutal, unprecedented act of violence took place in the center of the Thuringian city of Gera.
At around 12 noon, a 27-year-old refugee from Syria approached a German pensioner and ripped the chain with the Christ cross from his neck. The symbol was a silver pendant worth around 250 euros. He then allegedly punched the 79-year-old victim in the face. The senior citizen suffered a bleeding wound.
According to FOCUS online information, the suspected perpetrator Rasem A. acted completely unexpectedly. He did not shout anything before or during the attack. An investigator told FOCUS online that it was a “lightning attack”.
Syrian ripped the chain with the Christ cross from pensioner’s neck
According to the Gera public prosecutor’s office, the motive for the attack was clearly “religious.” Senior public prosecutor Thomas Riebel told FOCUS online: “According to the accused’s statement, he saw a disregard for Christianity in the way the victim was wearing the cross.”
The Syrian was apparently bothered by a second pendant that the pensioner wore around his neck and felt that his religious feelings were being affected. The immigrant, who came to Germany in 2015, did not provide any further information.
After the act of violence, police briefly arrested the Syrian near the crime scene and brought him to court for a detention review. Rasem A. was released there, however. According to the police, imprisonment was not possible “due to a lack of legal requirements.”
FOCUS online exclusive: Rasem A.’s criminal record.
However, the attacker was known to the police and the judiciary and had several previous convictions; he is considered a repeat offender. FOCUS online exclusively publishes the criminal file of Rasem A.:
2017, Gera Regional Court, multiple dangerous bodily harm, two years and six months youth sentence.
2019, Gera District Court, violation of the Narcotics Act and other crimes, two years and nine months imprisonment, fully served.
2022, Gera District Court, violation of the Narcotics Act and multiple bodily harm, one year imprisonment, fully served.
This list alone shows that the migrant is prone to serious acts of violence and is not deterred by state coercive measures.
The decision – apparently legally correct – not to take him into custody after the brutal attack on the pensioner on June 5th turned out to be fatal in retrospect. Because just two days later the 27-year-old struck again in Gera city center.
After the detention review, the 27-year-old is said to have struck again
At short intervals and independently of one another, Rasem A. beat up nine victims, some of them pensioners.
“Among other things, he hit a man in the face, causing him to suffer a brain hemorrhage and a stroke. He was admitted to hospital,” Thomas Riebel told FOCUS online. The other victims also suffered some serious injuries. When police tried to arrest the perpetrator, he behaved rebelliously.
At least this time a judge sent Rasem A. to a correctional facility.
The Syrian is now in a psychiatric facility, where he is “temporarily housed,” as Thomas Riebel from the Gera public prosecutor’s office explained to FOCUS online on Monday. It is said to be the Stadtroda specialist clinic.
In addition, his authority has drawn up an application in the security proceedings, which was submitted to the Gera regional court at the end of August 2024. It must be examined whether the man should be permanently housed in a psychiatric hospital.
Application: intentional bodily harm in 15 cases
“The application accuses the accused of intentional bodily harm in 15 cases,” explained the senior public prosecutor. “In one case, this was a concurrent offense with physical assault on law enforcement officers, in one case a concurrent offense with robbery, and in one case a concurrent offense with attempted robbery and extortion in multiple offenses with dangerous bodily harm in multiple offenses with damage to property.”
Riebel did not want to provide information about the Syrian’s medical history “due to privacy protection.” “First, a brief forensic psychiatric report was drawn up. The final report is still pending.’
It is currently not known whether the Gera immigration authorities have attempted to deport the serial criminal to his home country of Syria.
The Syrian’s defence lawyer, Udo Freier from Greiz, did not want to comment on the case to FOCUS online. ‘We would first like to wait for the full expert report on my client’s state of health,’ said the lawyer on Monday. |
