A doctor with “lust for killing” accused of killing 15 patients under the care

A Doctor in Berlin The prosecutors said on Wednesday that he was accused of death for the death of 15 patients under the auspices of the platform, claiming that he had acted from a “desire” of killing. He is also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes.

The doctor was part of the end -of -life care team at the service of nursing and was initially suspected of The death of only four patients. This number has Rally Since last summer, investigators now say they have found evidence that he had the death of 15 people between September 22, 2021 and July 24 last year.

The ages of the victims ranged from 25 to 94. Most of them died in their homes.

German press reports are determined by the suspect as Johannes M, but the prosecutors did not issue a name, in line with the rules of German privacy.

The 40 -year -old “runs a drug and comfortable muscle for his patients without their knowledge or consent”, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Berlin He said in a statement. “The latter was paralyzed in the respiratory muscles, which led to the arrest of the respiratory system and death within minutes.”

Prosecutors and police Previously said It is said that the accused did not have any motivation that exceeded the killing, and that the actions of the suspect fulfill the legal definition of the “desire to kill.”

He is alleged that he ran a drug and a muscle comfort for patients without their knowledge or consent. Then the drug cocktail has claimed paralysis of the respiratory system. Prosecutors said that respiratory and death arrest followed within minutes.

The doctor has been held since August 6. Prosecutors said on Wednesday that he did not respond to the case against him.

The charges have been brought to the Berlin State Court, which will now have to decide whether the case will be brought to the trial and if so, when.

The murder has a sentence of life imprisonment in prison. The prosecutors said that they aim to ask the court to prove that the suspect is particularly bearing a severe guilt, which means that he will not be qualified to release after 15 years, as is usually the case in Germany. They also want to be banned from his career for life.

The case remembers that the notorious German nurse Nels HujelIn 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 85 patients in his care.

HoeGel, believes he is Germany Most of the heavy serial killerHospital patients who suffer from deadly injections between 2000 and 2005, before he was eventually arrested in this act.

In a recent case in Germany, a 27 -year -old male nurse was sentenced to life in 2023 for killing patients by giving intentional non -described drugs. The nurse, who was identified as Mario J. On six charges of attempting to kill.

In England, a newborn nurse Lucy Litty He spends a life sentence Seven children were killed And try to kill six others. However, in February, a committee of experts The disputed medical evidence Used to condemn Litty. Last month, Letby’s lawyers and former executives in the hospital requested that she worked from the judge Stop the investigation In deaths, quoting the Experts Committee.

Agence France-Press contributed to this report.