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Woman who stabbed 15 at Hamburg train station confined to psychiatric hospital, court rules
Euronews ^ | 26/01/2026 | Gavin Blackburn

Posted on 01/26/2026 10:43:22 PM PST by nickcarraway

The woman stole a knife from a drug store and attacked passengers waiting on a platform in the busy station during the Friday evening rush hour, severely injuring at least four of her victims.

A woman who stabbed 15 people in an attack at Hamburg's central train station in northern Germany last year was ordered on Monday to be held permanently in a psychiatric hospital.

A court ruled that the 39-year-old woman, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, could not be held criminally responsible for the 23 May attack, according to a court spokesperson.

The woman stole a knife from a drug store and attacked passengers waiting on a platform in the busy station during the Friday evening rush hour, severely injuring at least four of her victims.

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Well if she stabbed someone like Monica Seles, maybe they could have let her go.
1 posted on 01/26/2026 10:43:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Vederal judge will order her released beczuse it is “cruel to lock mentslly ill peop.e up” or something.


2 posted on 01/26/2026 10:50:39 PM PST by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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A court ruled that the 39-year-old woman, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia (”I’m not crazy, and neither am I!” she said)...


3 posted on 01/26/2026 10:59:22 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
Despite everyone carrying a cell phone camera, we have no pictures or names to go by.
How can we evaluate the circumstances without a name and a picture?

Verdict:   Sudden Jihad Syndrome .

4 posted on 01/26/2026 11:03:38 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Not sayin’ that it definitely IS Aliens, ...but”


5 posted on 01/26/2026 11:09:48 PM PST by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

15 people? You’d think that by the 3rd or 4th person, someone would have bashed her in the head, especially if they were next in line to get stabbed. But then it’s Europe.


6 posted on 01/26/2026 11:21:42 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: nickcarraway

What crap. Women always get off, no accountability, no responsibility.


7 posted on 01/26/2026 11:24:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Well, it isn’t always women. Günter Parche stabbed Monica Seles because she was beating Steffi Graf, and he was let go. (Apparently for performing a service to the German nation.)


8 posted on 01/26/2026 11:26:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Umm, he was actually sentenced. Women often dont get sentenced at all. They at least held him in detention for six months.

Günter Parche was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence for stabbing Monica Seles in 1993. He served less than six months in pre-trial detention but did not serve any additional prison time.

They’ve already concluded she won’t be held responsible/charged, so no sentencing. Ridiculous.


9 posted on 01/26/2026 11:31:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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He got a six month free vacation. Hey, if he stabbed Steffi Graf, do you think he would have gotten that? No, he would have gotten maximum punishment. But he stabbed someone Germany like him stabbing.


10 posted on 01/26/2026 11:34:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
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The woman stole a knife from a drug store and attacked passengers waiting on a platform in the busy station during the Friday evening rush hour, severely injuring at least four of her victims.

We can safely assume that she wasn't a native German, insofar as she didn't purchase the knife, nor did she first procure a Bahnsteigkarte ("platform ticket").

We all know how "rule-bound" the Germans are, after all!

A story circulated in the early Weimar years about a small group of self‑styled revolutionaries—young men fired up by Marx, Bakunin, or whatever pamphlet they’d last read—who planned to "storm" a railway station to seize a train and spread the uprising to the next city.

They arrived at the station, full of revolutionary zeal, whispering about fire-bombing police stations and the coming collapse of bourgeois order.

And then they stopped "dead in their tracks" at the entrance to the platform.

A uniformed railway employee stood there, as always, asking to see either a travel ticket or a platform ticket.

The revolutionaries looked at one another.

They had no tickets.

They had no intention of buying any.

They were, after all, about to overthrow the system.

But the idea of simply walking past the official - breaking a posted rule, violating a small but explicit regulation - felt unthinkable. Even in the midst of their grand plan to topple the state, they hesitated at the notion of ignoring a railway clerk.

After a moment of awkward silence, one of them sighed, reached into his pocket, and said:

"Well… we can’t just not buy one."

So they dutifully purchased their Bahnsteigkarten, filed onto the platform in perfect order, and continued their "revolutionary" mission - having already demonstrated that the German love of Ordnung was stronger than their appetite for insurrection.

Regards,

11 posted on 01/27/2026 12:10:02 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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LOL. Great story.

12 posted on 01/27/2026 12:13:17 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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This was on the railway platform (I was there at the same place....six weeks prior). Crowd was already there...formed up waiting for long-distance train to pull up. Based on witnesses...it was probably 30 seconds of slashing before people realized the extent of what was going on.

On my trip...must have been 300 folks minimum standing there in a confined area.

Typically, if you get a court-mandate to a psycho-unit in Germany...it’s a 99-percent chance you will still be there 20 years later. Release rarely occurs.


13 posted on 01/27/2026 3:08:07 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; lee martell

Yeah, by not describing her, they pretty much describe her.


14 posted on 01/27/2026 3:42:00 AM PST by skimbell
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To: nickcarraway

Hmmm... Florida woman vacationing in Germany?


15 posted on 01/27/2026 5:42:08 AM PST by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: nickcarraway

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, West Germany, which didn’t have the death penalty, nevertheless had a way of dealing with terrorists like the Red Army Faction who committed mass murder once there were in jail. That needs to be revived.


16 posted on 01/27/2026 7:29:05 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: skimbell

Was it them, Yogi?


17 posted on 01/27/2026 7:43:43 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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“But the idea of simply walking past the official - breaking a posted rule, violating a small but explicit regulation - felt unthinkable. Even in the midst of their grand plan to topple the state, they hesitated at the notion of ignoring a railway clerk.”

I can relate to that - I’m married to a German woman. They have no sense of humor but are very ethical.


18 posted on 01/27/2026 7:59:16 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Umm... They know her age but not her name.


19 posted on 01/27/2026 8:01:41 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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was ordered on Monday to be held permanently in a psychiatric hospital.

No such thing as "permanently."

She'll be released in a year or two, if not sooner - like that mentally ill psychopath named "Jihad" who shot and killed three elderly tourists in Florida:

"Jihad Bojeh had previously been acquitted by reason of insanity in 2022 after being charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and criminal mischief for a 2021 incident in which he opened fire at a Wawa gas station parking lot, injuring one man. At that time, he was released on outpatient mental health treatment instead of being committed to a state mental health facility, due to a legal determination that he was not a danger to himself or others."

20 posted on 01/27/2026 8:13:35 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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