The authorities in Frankfurt got the final police report over the 'push-murder' of the 8-year old kid....into the path of a train at the Frankfurt railway station, by the Swiss-migrant guy back in July of this year.
I essayed a couple of pieces on the event, and the tragic circumstances.
As HR (regional Hessen public news) reports it....it's basically as I described there three days after the event. The migrant guy has been 'rubber-stamped' by the doctors and police now as mentally ill and you can't suggest murder charges.
There will be a judge's hearing....probably with statements by the state prosecutor and the judge, and maybe a doctor or two. Then some directive will be signed by a judge to probably send the guy off to a permanent facility (maybe in Switzerland, where his family is) or perhaps in the Hessen region. End of the story?
Well....a number of folks may hold anti-migrant feelings and hostilities over this, but frankly.....the Swiss medical folks who'd been treating him....for months....should have done more to view the guy and possibly put him into a confined area. No one says the level on his Paranoid Schizophrenia, but it's probably maxing out near '10' unless he's heavily medicated. Unless you can guarantee he's medicated each and every day.....he probably should have been in a facility several months prior to the July episode.
It may not satisfy folks, but it's the manner that you need to handle anyone who is not in full control of their mental abilities.
Update: Thursday morning. Well, the court opened up and the prosecutor said that he'd continue on with a manslaughter charge. Naturally, a lawyer there for the family of the eight-year-old was extremely frustrated....expecting a murder charge. If you use the German criminal code, it's under paragraph 213 for manslaughter. Amount of jail time? Between one and ten years for manslaughter. The report presented by the mental experts....simply goes to the fact that the Swiss-migrant guy is not in control of himself.
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Yet we continue to water down the funding to hospitals and wonder why there's no beds available for long term care of such people. Surely it's in the common good that people that present a threat to others should be remanded within an institution with the goal of increasing the mental health stability before release in to the community? I know capitalist cry fits about this sort of attitude, but if it was their kid pushed on to the tracks... actually no... I couldn't wish that on anyone. Poor family.
It's not really finger-pointing at the Germans, but across all of Europe, the US, etc. Same story, you can look over at the homeless issues in San Francisco, and figure that 50-percent have a mental issue deserving of long-term care and fenced-in situation...judges don't want to sign that order, and the state doesn't want the funding issue or lawsuits. I can see the same issue in Frankfurt daily over by the Bahnhof. In the end, you end up with a massive amount of personal vigilance on your part, and that of your family.
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