German doctor went to court on Monday, accused Killing 15 patients With deadly injections and acting as a “master of life and death” over those who care.
40-year-old guy Special palliative careSupposedly, named German media as Johannes M. were killed by 12 women and three men from September 2021 to July 2024, working in Berlin.
The doctor is accused of injection of the victims, between the ages of 25 and 94, with the deadly cocktails of sedatives, and in some cases set fire to their homes, trying to cover their crimes.
The accused “visited his patients under the pretext of medical care,” Prosecutor Philip Meyhofer said at the opening of the trial in Berlin's court.
Meyhofer said that Johannes M. organized a “visit to the house, already intentionally killed” and used the trust of his patients as a doctor.
“He acted with ignoring life … and behaved as a master of life and death.”
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The employee for the first time raised the alarm over Johan M.
He was arrested in August and the prosecutor's office initially linked him to Four deaths.
But the following investigations have discovered a set Other suspicious casesAnd in April, the prosecutor's office accused Johannes M. in 15 articles of murder.
Prosecutors and police Earlier said The fact that the accused is said to have no motives that are not murdered and that the suspect's actions are in line with the legal determination of the “murder's lust”.
“Why do people kill?”
Another 96 cases were still investigated, AFP spokesman said, including M.
According to the media, she suffered from the river and died mysteriously on the weekend that Johann M. and his wife went to visit her to Poland.
The suspect was reportedly trained as a radiologist and a general practitioner before continuing to specialize in palliative care.
According to Die Zeit, he presented his doctoral dissertation in 2013, looking at the motives behind a number of killings in Frankfurt, which opened the words “Why do people kill?”
The doctor allegedly “introduces anesthetic and muscle relaxer for his patients without their knowledge and consent” Berlin Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. “The latter paralyzed the respiratory muscles, which led to a stop and death within minutes.”
In five cases, Johann M. allegedly set fire to the apartments of the victims after injection.
He was once accused of killing two patients on the same day.
On the morning of July 8, 2024, he allegedly killed a 75-year-old man in his home in the Berlin district of Kroisma.
“A few hours later,” he said he was hit again by killing a 76-year-old woman in the neighboring area of Nokoel.
Prosecutors say he started fire in a women's apartment, but she went outside.
“When he understood this, he allegedly told a relative to the woman and claimed that he was facing her apartment and that no one answered the door call,” the prosecutor's office said.
In another case, Johannes M. “Falsely claimed that he had already started resuscitation” for a 56-year-old sacrifice, which initially retained the rescuers but died three days later in the hospital.
Reviews of other cases
The case recalls the notorious German nurse Niels Hogelwho received life imprisonment in 2019 for killing 85 patients.
Hogel is supposedly modern Germany Most of the prolific serial killerThey killed patients at a hospital with deadly injections from 2000 to 2005 before he was eventually caught by law.
Recently, a 27-year-old nurse in 2023 was imprisoned for killing two patients, intentionally introducing unnecessary drugs.
In March, another nurse went to court in Achaen, accused of injection of 26 patients with high doses of sedatives or painkillers, which led to nine deaths.
Last week, German police showed an investigation into another doctor who is suspected of killing several elderly patients.
Investigators “consider” death associated with a doctor from Pineberg in northern Germany, near Hamburg, police and prosecutors said.
In England a newborn nurse Lucy Letby is serving a lifetime Murder seven babies and attempt to kill six others. On July 1, three former senior leaders in the hospital where lethby worked were arrested On suspicion of gross negligence of the murder.