Overview

• Bundespolizei detained the 26-year-old in Potsdam on August 12 and brought him to a specialist psychiatric clinic.
• He is to be transferred to Schleswig-Holstein so proceedings on suspicion of attempted murder can continue.
• Authorities say the man allegedly grabbed a 12-year-old by the head and neck at Reinbek station in May and tried to push him onto the tracks.
• An Amtsarzt and the Reinbek district court initially placed him in a clinic after a psychiatric expert assessed him as mentally ill and dangerous.
• The Reinbek court and the Lübeck regional court declined an internment order, the prosecutor appealed, and on June 23 the Higher Regional Court ordered provisional placement in a psychiatric hospital.