Doctor suspected of killing 8 patients: “Desire for murder”

German investigators suspect a Berlin doctor of killing eight elderly patients in his care and setting fire to several houses to cover up his crimes, prosecutors said Thursday.

The 40-year-old suspect, whose identity was not disclosed, was working in palliative care at the home care service.

He was detained in August on suspicion of killing four women aged between 72 and 94. Berlin prosecutors have now contacted him Four more deaths of men and women aged 61 to 83.

Police announced in August that the man was under investigation. four manslaughterone count of arson and three attempted arson.

Berlin prosecutors said they were now treating the alleged killings as murder cases.

“The defendant appears to have no motive for killing people other than killing himself,” they said, accusing him of “homicidal desire.”

In August, police said the man was suspected of killing four female patients receiving care at a Berlin nursing home between June 11 and July 24.

In one case, an 87-year-old woman was resuscitated by the arrival of emergency services but later died in hospital.

In the other case, it was claimed that the suspect started a fire, but the fire was extinguished.

“When he noticed this, he allegedly notified a relative of the woman, who claimed that she was standing outside her house and no one answered the doorbell,” police said. he said.

In four new cases between June 2022 and April 2024, the suspect is accused of killing two men and two women in Berlin.

In one case, he is suspected of giving a 70-year-old woman a drug cocktail and then starting a fire in her apartment in Berlin’s Tempelhof district.

The fire department, informed by the neighbor, prevented the flames from spreading to other parts of the building.

He is also accused of administering lethal drugs to two men, aged 70 and 83, and a 61-year-old woman.

The case is reminiscent of that of the infamous German nurse Niels HoegelHe was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 85 patients in his care in 2019.

Hoegel believed to be Germany’s man most prolific serial killerBetween 2000 and 2005, he killed hospital patients with lethal injections and was eventually caught red-handed.

Högel earned the nickname “Resuscitation Rambo” because he “pushed everyone aside” when patients needed to be resuscitated, a former colleague told German newspaper Bild. reported.

In a more recent case, a 27-year-old male nurse was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2023 for deliberately killing two patients by administering them over-the-counter drugs.

The nurse, identified as Mario G., was also found guilty of six counts of attempted murder.

During his trial, Mario G. admitted to injecting cocktails of sedatives and other drugs into patients while working in the recovery room of a Munich hospital.

The trial in Berlin came a few weeks later British doctor confessed Disguised as a nurse, she tries to kill her mother’s long-term partner by injecting poison into the man disguised as a Covid-19 vaccine.

A British judge in August prisoner nurse Lucy Letby spend the rest of your life in prison killing seven babies and attempting to murder six people while working at a hospital in northern England.

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