A 20-year-old man from Syria was pushed from the parapet of the Stone Bridge at lunchtime on October 13th. The victim fell almost seven meters, hit the stone icebreaker and seriously injured himself.
The suspect, a 28-year-old from northern Upper Palatinate, has been in a psychiatric facility ever since. The public prosecutor's office is demanding that the man be permanently committed to a psychiatric hospital. Although there are numerous indications of a xenophobic motive, it is assumed, based on a psychiatric expert report, that the suspect was incompetent at the time of the crime, according to senior public prosecutor Thomas Rauscher. He is said to have "strolled unimpressedly across the bridge and gave the Hitler salute to a plainclothes police officer who happened to be present" immediately after the crime. "various references to National Socialist ideas" were found on his cell phone. Based on the crime scene, witness statements, and other investigative procedures, further evidence of a xenophobic motive for the crime emerged.