A regional court in Potsdam has acquitted a 23-year-old migrant from Guinea of criminal responsibility for the January murder of a young CDU member in Beelitz and a separate knife attack on a woman, ruling that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the crimes.
Mamadou Alpha B. will be committed on Thursday to a secure psychiatric facility indefinitely.
The court concluded that the Guinean, who arrived in Germany in 2016 and had no prior criminal record, was not in control of his actions due to a severe mental illness. “The defendant cannot be held criminally responsible,” presiding judge Bodo Wermelskirchen stated. “This was a treacherous murder, but the accused was mentally ill and is dangerous to the public.”
Remix News previously reported how, on Jan. 14, the migrant slit the throat of 24-year-old Christoph R., a neighbor and member of the CDU and its youth wing, the Junge Union. According to court testimony, Mamadou B. blindfolded the man, stabbed him to death, and then set his apartment on fire. He later called emergency services himself. The two men were previously acquainted, and the perpetrator claimed that they had met on multiple occasions, during which the victim allegedly blindfolded him and took photos in exchange for money.
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