Enamullah O., an Afghan citizen, stabbed two people to death in Aschaffenburg, Germany in January this year. The Aschaffenburg Regional Court announced on Thursday, October 30th, that he will be permanently placed in a psychiatric institution as he cannot be held criminally responsible. This is in line with the earlier arguments of the prosecution and the victims’ representatives.
On January 22nd, the 28-year-old man followed a group of children from a daycare center to a park in Aschaffenburg and attacked them with a kitchen knife. He killed a two-year-old Moroccan boy with several knife wounds and also attacked a Syrian girl. A 41-year-old man rushed to their aid, but the Enamullah O. killed him too. The defendant had taken medication before the attack.
The prosecution charged him with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, threats, and multiple counts of assault. According to public broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk, the prosecutor emphasized that the Afghan man acted with “incredible brutality and absolute intent to destroy”. An expert witness described the man as “severely mentally disturbed” and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. The expert witness warned that further attacks were “very, very likely”.
The Afghan man arrived in Germany in 2022 and was already known to the police for his violent tendencies before the attack. Although he was supposed to leave the country in 2024, he was still there in 2025 when he committed what his lawyer described as “ the act of a madman”.
