Bewilderment after killings at German residency for acute disabled
Potsdam is reeling after four unexplained killings in a disabled residency. A caregiver is facing manslaughter charges and has been sent to a psychiatric clinic.
Four people were found dead in their rooms, and fourth was found severely injured
Wilfried Lehmann chief prosecutor in the city in Brandenburg, near Berlin, said a judge had sectioned the long-serving 51-year-old employee of the home.
Investigators, led by the police murder squad, were still at the "very start" of their probe, he said.
The 60 disabled residents and 80 staff of the Thusnelda-von-Salden House were in bewilderment, said Pastor Matthias Fichtmüller who heads the Oberlinhaus campus in Potsdam's Babelsberg district. The house is part of the German Protestant church's Diakonie charitable network, active nationwide and abroad.