Overview

• On October 10, 2024, he set his attic apartment, a Caritas transport vehicle and an employment agency office ablaze before police shot him in a cinema foyer near the main station.
• The Landgericht Krefeld convicted him of aggravated arson and related offences based on his partial confession and evidence from multiple fire scenes.
• A court-commissioned psychiatric assessment diagnosed him with a dissocial personality disorder and ruled he was fully responsible for the attacks.
• Officials report he entered Germany illegally in 2002, is known under 27 aliases and served a 4.5-year sentence in 2010 for violent offences including attempted rape.
• His defence attorney has announced plans to appeal the 6.5-year prison term and subsequent preventive detention, with the verdict not yet final.