The Doctor was part of a serving care team and is a suspect in the beginning Death only four patients. That number has pulled more Since last summer, and investigators now say they have found evidence that connected it with death of 15 people between 22. September 2021. and 24. July last year.
The old people of the victims moved from 25 to 94. Most died in their homes.
German press reports identify the suspect as Johannes M., but the prosecutors did not publish their name, in accordance with German Privacy Policy.
The 40-year-old doctor allegedly “applied anesthesia and muscle relax his patients without their knowledge or consent”, Berlin Prosecution said in a statement. “The latter paralyzes respiratory muscles, which led to respiratory arrest and death within minutes.”
Prosecutors and police said before That the accused says that there is no motive outside the murder and that the suspects are fulfilling the legal definition of “lust for murder”.
The doctor was in custody of 6. August. Prosecutors said on Wednesday that he had not yet answered the case against him.
The charges were filed with the State Court Berlin, who will now have to decide whether to make the case for the trial and if so, when.
The charges of murder carry the maximum sentence of life in prison. Prosecutors said they wanted to ask the court that the suspect carries particularly serious guilty, which means he would not be entitled to release after 15 years as it is usually the case in Germany. They also want to ban him from his profession for life.
The case is reminiscent of that of the wicked German sister Niels HoegelIn his care, he convicted in his care 2019. in prison in prison for killing 85 patients.
Hoegel, which is believed to be Germany The most fertile serial killerMurdered hospital patients with deadly injections between 2000. and 2005. year, before ultimately caught in the rank.
In the history in Germany, a 27-year-old male nurse was sentenced to life in prison 2023. for murders of two patients intentionally managing non-complicated drugs. The sister was identified as Mario G., was also found guilty to six points attempted attempt.
In England, neonatal sister Lucy Letby serves a life sentence for Murder seven babies And trying to kill six others. However, in February, the panel of experts challenged medical proof used to condemn letby. Last month, lawyers for letby and former executives in the hospital in which she worked asked the judge stop query To death, referring to the panel of experts.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.
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