Overview

• Police and prosecutors say a 32-year-old patient is urgently suspected of fatally attacking a 63-year-old fellow patient.
• The assault occurred on a locked ward during the night to Saturday, causing severe blunt-force injuries to the head and chest.
• The victim was resuscitated and transferred to another hospital, where he later died.
• Central criminal investigators secured extensive traces at the scene that night, and an autopsy was carried out Saturday at the prosecutor’s request.
• Motive and precise circumstances remain unresolved as the inquiry continues.