From the BZ editorial team
On Friday, ten months after the terrible event, the verdict against amok driver Gor H. (30) was pronounced in the Berlin district court. He is permanently placed in a psychiatric facility.
► The indictment was based on murder and 16 attempted murders. Prosecutors and co-plaintiffs had applied for the driver’s permanent placement in a psychiatric hospital.
Before the evidence was closed, the psychiatric expert declared him innocent! The accused suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has been receiving close clinical care for many years. The first signs were there as early as 2013. “He heard voices. Was aggressive towards mom and sister.”
That had happened
June 2022. 10.30 am. Kurfürstendamm (Charlottenburg) towards Wittenbergplatz. At number 236, the silver Renault Clio swerves to the right onto the sidewalk to the junction with Rankestrasse. According to prosecutors, “with the intention of injuring many of the people there who he saw walking on the sidewalk … also fatally”.
He continues to race in the bus lane on Tauentzienstrasse to Marburger Strasse. Hits a Hyundai that he overtakes on the right at a red light. Drives into people standing in front of a snack bar.
The killing spree ended in the window of the Douglas branch on Nürnberger Strasse Photo: DAVIDS/Sven Darmer
Then he crashed his car into the window pane of a Douglas branch on Tauentzien. He flees, but passers-by hold him.
► Among the injured, some of them seriously, were twelve students (16-17) from the 10th grade of the Kaulbach school in Bad Arolsen (Northern Hesse), who were on their final trip. A teacher (51) died at the scene of the accident, her colleague (53) was injured.
Numerous rescue workers and police officers were deployed on Tauentzien Photo: dpa
A schoolgirl (14) who was traveling with her grandparents was also seriously injured, as well as a woman (32, 7 months pregnant) and two other guests (29, 31) in front of a street snack bar.