Hamburg – The charges against Lydia S. (39) are considered serious. He is said to have stabbed people with a knife at the main train station, injuring many people, some of them life-threatening. He has been in court since Wednesday. And have to endure rare security measures.
The 39-year-old man was brought into the courtroom at lunch with his hands handcuffed and his face ashen. He is said to have stolen a vegetable knife from a drugstore in the Wandelhalle at Hamburg Central Station on May 23. With that he attacked passengers on platforms 13 and 14. 15 hurt him, then another finished him rampagebeat Lydia S. and hand her over to the police.
After the crime, homicide detectives secured evidence at the crime scene
Lydia S. attacked her father with scissors
In January, Lydia S. reportedly tried to kill her father with scissors. Not the only act of violence. That’s why he comes again and again to psychiatry.
A victim stabbed in the upper arm during an attack at the main train station, who also suffered a broken muscle, watched the start of the trial in the courtroom.
One of the plaintiffs with his attorney Frank Giesel in the courtroom
The little girl had to witness the attack on the father
His attorney, Frank Giesel: “My client is now feeling well again, he is capable Court to show up and be interested in doing it. However, she was on her way home with her young daughter when she was attacked. Her daughter had to witness the crime and was traumatized.
Police launched a massive effort after the attack and injured people had to be treated by rescue teams
The prosecutor’s office submitted an application to the regional court in May Hamburg, to carry out the so-called security process against Lydia S. She had to be permanently placed in a mental hospital because: “The defendant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia associated with a lack of awareness of reality. Based on the results of the expert assessment, his ability to understand the alleged crime has been completely lost.”
What sounds like convenient justice is actually a harsher measure. Because a prison sentence has a predetermined end – placement in a mental institution does not. As long as the patient is deemed dangerous, he or she will remain confined.
Lydia S. is considered very dangerous
And it turns out that Lydia S. is dangerous: she also had to wear handcuffs during the trial. An extraordinary security measure that is almost never ordered, even for terrorists and mafiosi.
A justice employee hung a sign next to the courtroom door except for the public
Because it’s heavy mental illness by Lydia S. community excluded from hearing. Only for Indictment he should be allowed back into the hall. Scheduled for January 27, 2026.
