(AFP) A German court on Tuesday committed a Somali man to a psychiatric hospital, after he knifed three people to death in the southern city of Wuerzburg last year.
Nine other people were injured in the attack in the Bavarian city in June 2021.
The man, who came to Germany as an asylum seeker, was accused of using a long kitchen knife to randomly attack people in a shop before running into the street.
Prosecutors initially considered an Islamist motive for the attack but this was not confirmed in the investigation that followed.
Ahead of the trial, which began in April, two court-ordered experts found the perpetrator suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was therefore unable to be held criminally responsible for his acts.
