Magdeburg amoking: The focus of the perpetrator's mental illness!

Magdeburg amoking: The focus of the perpetrator's mental illness!

Soon the references to a serious mental illness of the assassin. According to the Tagesschau and the assessments of the terrorist expert Peter Neumann may have been planned by delusion and had a pathological hatred against German authorities. He was convinced that Germany had the false refugee system and that Europe wanted to Islamize, a thought that apparently was accompanied by the delusion of persecution. The tragic connection of personal frustration and psychological unstable ultimately seems to have driven him to the act of violence.

The psychological abyss and the authority error

The indications that there were signs of the psychological instability of Taleb A. long in advance, now serious accusations against the responsible authorities. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania already informed the Federal Criminal Police Office about A.’s potential threat in 2015. Questions about dealing with such warning signals are getting louder, while the Federal Attorney General does not take over the investigation, since the mental illness of the perpetrator makes political motivation unlikely.

The funeral march took place yesterday on the Magdeburg cathedral square, which was organized by the AfD, also brings the social climate into excitement. At the same time, the "Give Hass no chance" initiative and set an example against the abuse of the tragedy for political purposes.

Need for new strategies

The terrorism expert Peter Neumann also pointed out the inability to deal with such perpetrators. It pleads for adaptation to international standards, such as those in Great Britain, where new categories for groups of perpetrators are introduced, which develop their extremist worldviews from personal radicality and mental disorders. According to Bavarian radio there are already classifications for perpetrators that have already existed with "mixed, instead and unclear ”.

In the tense situation in Magdeburg, the discussion about necessary structural changes is heated with the security authorities. FDP politicians are calling for better cooperation and no “leverage” of the authorities in order to better do justice to the complexity of such threats. Political decision -makers are under pressure to initiate fundamental reforms in order to ensure security in public places and to prevent such attacks in the future.