Thursday, January 30, 2020

That Frankfurt Murder Episode

Back in July of 2019, I essayed a couple of times over the German kid (and his mother) who were pushed off a platform at the Frankfurt train station....into the path of a oncoming ICE train (arriving at the station).  The mother was able to climb out of the way at the last second.....the kid died there on the track.

The pusher?  Well....this got into a fairly curious episode.  He is a Swiss migrant (having come from Eritrea back in 2006 to Switzerland and gotten a visa to stay there). 

The story got fairly complicated.  This guy was a poster-'winner' in Switzerland and folks bragged on how he'd adjusted to life there.  Then, something occurred in the past three years, and he started to have serious issues (mentally). 

At some point, if you follow some of the Swiss reporting.....he got into treatment and spent an entire month in some facility....for Paranoid Schizophrenia.  The doctors felt he'd gotten onto the right drug treatment, and could control Schizophrenia.

It appears, again from Swiss reporting....that at some point in June....this guy started to have serious issues again.  So the day comes up in the apartment building where he was living....that he erupted on some neighbor, and they felt threatened.....calling the cops.

This guy freaked out, made his way to the city railway station, and boarded a train out.....to Germany.  He arrived in Frankfurt and spent an evening there, and in the morning of the next day....was on this platform of the arriving ICE train.  For whatever reason, he felt a need to push the mother, the kid, and an older guy into the path of the train.

As he ran away.....locals in the station held him until the cops came. 

What the German authorities say.....from roughly three months ago, is that the guy is unstable and needs to be permanently in a facility.  It appeared at that point that the prosecutor would drop the manslaughter charges and the judge would just move the guy to either a Swiss or German mental institute. 

Well....today, via Focus news.....things went into a different direction.

Both the mother and father of the kid pushed onto the tracks....aren't satisfied over the investigation and are asking more questions.  What's being said here is that not all of the facts have been assembled.  What's missing?  The journalists aren't talking much, and the prosecutor is saying very little.

My humble guess over the lacking info?  They might be asking for the full records of the medical handling for this guy over the past three years, and wondering if he was full-up Paranoid Schizophrenic in 2017 or 2018.  If so, what doctor or authority signed off on the paperwork to allow him to be released (in Switzerland)? 

This medical record situation could reflect badly upon a Swiss doctor or two, and trigger them to have their license reviewed or suspended. 

As for the Swiss-Eritrean guy?  He's probably safe in a fenced-up facility and won't be ever exiting as a free person. 

As for the comment that Eritrea has a higher rate of Paranoid Schizophrenia than most all countries in Europe?  If you go and look up the data.....that statement is true. Did the guy have evidence of Schizophrenia back in 2006?  So far, no one has suggested that. 

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