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Yvonne Kussmann wrote that a 23-year-old Indian man snatched a five-year-old boy from his mother on a platform in Wuppertal in April 2018 and jumped in front of a train with him. The child survived the attack without serious injuries. In October 2018, the man was acquitted due to insanity caused by paranoid schizophrenia and placed in a secure psychiatric facility. Kussmann contrasted the diagnosis with the belief in demons like Asuras or Pishachas in India, from whom people might receive commands, including to kill. She stated that the man had been deported after about eight years in the secure facility; various media reported on this. At the same time, she questioned whether Western therapies were meaningful for a man with a different cultural background. Using figures from North Rhine-Westphalia for 2025, Kussmann calculated that among approximately 4,300 detained individuals, costs of 623 million euros had been incurred. This amounts to about 390 euros per person per day. For eight years in the secure facility, this totals just over 1.1 million euros for the man. Kussmann questioned why the man had not been immediately deported instead of being treated at the taxpayers' expense for so long. She noted that he had entered as an asylum seeker, attempted to kill a child, and had never received a punishment for the act. #Asylpolitik #PsychischeGesundheit #Gesellschaftsdebatte (translated)

Brajan Gruda, an emerging talent from RB Leipzig, is aiming for a victory against Bayern Munich to present himself for the German national team under Jürgen Klopp, after recovering from injuries and recently celebrating a successful comeback in the Champions League. #BrajanGruda #RBL #Bundesliga (translated)

After the 1:0 victory of Austria Salzburg in the West derby against Wacker Innsbruck, guest coach Christian Schaider was hit by a cup thrown by a child, resulting in visible injuries and sparking a discussion about the behavior of children in football stadiums. #Fußball #Österreich #Derby (translated)

In the lead-up to the high-risk game between Dynamo Dresden and 1. FC Magdeburg on Sunday, the police in Dresden are preparing for possible riots after heavy violence and numerous injuries among the emergency services occurred during the last encounter. #Ostkracher #DynamoDresden #Hochrisikospiel (translated)

Hertha BSC is facing the second division match against bottom-placed Holstein Kiel with personnel surprises, including the return of Deyovaisio Zeefuik to the starting eleven and the absence of Marton Dardai and Gustaf Nilsson due to injuries. #HerthaBSC #ZweiteLiga #Fußball (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann wrote that ten years ago in Hamburg, the then 16-year-old Victor was killed. An unknown assailant attacked him from behind with a knife at the shore of the Alster and seriously injured him multiple times; the perpetrator pushed Victor's girlfriend into the Alster. Victor later died in the hospital. The perpetrator has not been found to this day. The case became known as the Alster murder. Two weeks after the crime, the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the murder. However, the German authorities did not classify it as an Islamist attack, Kussmann wrote. She also recalled the murders of Samuel Paty six years ago and Maria Ladenburger ten years ago. Kussmann again shared a post that Victor's mother published a year ago. At that time, she inquired with the public prosecutor's office and learned that the investigations were ongoing, but there was no new status update. According to the public prosecutor's office, the composite image was not created based on information from Victor's girlfriend, but due to the observation of a third person who had seen a suspicious individual near the crime scene. Due to fewer individual characteristics, the public prosecutor's office considers the image to be "limitedly relevant." #GerechtigkeitFürVictor #AlsterMord #Erinnerung (translated)

In Istanbul, journalist Bahadir Özgür, who works for the opposition-affiliated broadcaster Halk TV, was arrested for violating the confidentiality of investigations, which the organization CPJ regards as an alarming restriction on press freedom. #Pressefreiheit #Journalismus #Türkei (translated)

The Administrative Court of Cologne has ruled that the publisher "Wort & Bild" as the operator of "Apotheken Umschau" cannot assert a claim for injunction against the federal health portal "gesund.bund.de," as it lacks the standing to sue and there is no violation of public law claims. #Gesundheitsportal #Pressefreiheit #Wettbewerbsrecht (translated)