A man who stabbed an Orthodox Jew in Geneva was found unfit to stand
trial in Switzerland because of his clinical paranoia and “irrational
fear of an international conspiracy.”
A court in Geneva earlier
this month found that the 22-year-old man, who was not named, was too
“mentally ill” to stand trial for stabbing and seriously wounding a
32-year-old French Jew in 2011, the Tribune de Genève daily reported.
The
attack occurred in the parking lot of Geneva’s Natural History Museum
while the victim, a citizen of France from Aix-les-Bains, was putting a
baby carriage in the trunk of his car. His attacker stabbed him four
times in view of the victim’s family. The victim arrived in the hospital
in critical condition and spent several weeks there recovering.
The
defendant, who grew up in Britain, was arrested a year after the attack
in the Netherlands and extradited to Switzerland at the end of what the
CICAD, a Swiss watchdog on anti-Semitism, termed "a long investigation
by the police.”
The court declared the attacker unfit to stand
trial based on a psychiatric evaluation that said he was a “paranoid
schizophrenic suffering from visual hallucinations as well as
hallucinated voices and fears of an international conspiracy.” He will
be locked up in an institution for mentally ill people who pose a
serious risk to their environment, the paper said.
Johanne
Gurfinkel, the secretary general of a CICAD, told JTA the defendant
belonged to far-right circles. “The perpetrator of this act may have
suffered from mental problems, but he clearly attacked his victim out of
anti-Semitic hatred,” Gurfinkel said.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/03/22/3122881/man-who-stabbed-jew-in-geneva-unfit-to-stand-trial#When:17:18:00Z
Friday 22 March 2013
Geneva man who stabbed Jew deemed unfit for trial
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