A German court ruled that Muhammed A., an Iraqi asylum seeker whose request to remain in the country had been denied, will not go to prison after pushing a 16-year-old girl onto train tracks.
The tragic incident happened at the Friedland train station, where Liana K., a Ukrainian refugee and dental assistant trainee, was killed in front of her grandfather by a freight train traveling at 100 km/h.
Although DNA evidence linked the Iraqi man to the scene, prosecutors argued that he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, making him legally not criminally responsible. Instead of receiving a prison sentence, he will be confined to a high-security psychiatric facility.
The case sparked widespread outrage, especially from the victim’s mother, who revealed that the attacker had already been under a deportation order since 2022 and had been released from a psychiatric clinic just one day before the attack. 💔