Murder at the UW campus. Strong words of a criminologist. Sees such a risk
Wednesday evening, on May 7, at the UW campus at Krakowskie Przedmieście. Mrs. Małgorzata († 53 years old) closed the Auditorium Maximum building. It was then that the porter’s shop was attacked. Mieszko R., a student of the law of this university, dealt with a siekier. The 53-year-old, a university bodyguard started to rescue. The 39-year-old was seriously injured. The woman died on the spot.
Murder at the University of Warsaw. Mieszko R. with allegations
After the attack, the young man behaved calmly. He didn’t run away. He was detained by the services. Knives and bayonet and the book « Dialogues of Confucius » were found in his backpack. There is no indication that Mieszko R. knows the murdered woman.
On Thursday, May 8, he heard three allegations: murders with particular cruelty, attempted murder of a university guard and insulting the victim’s corpse. According to the prosecutor’s office, the 22-year-old confessed to the alleged acts. In turn, the defender Mieszko R., lawyer Maciej Zaborowski, claims that his client did not confess.
A deeds are threatened with life imprisonment for alleged Mieszko R.. – The man refused to answer all the questions asked to him. However, he made explanations, the content of which indicates that it is necessary to obtain a court-psychiatric opinion-Piotr Antoni Skiba, spokesman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, said during a press conference.
A spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutor’s office said that the information that has been obtained so far shows that Mieszko R. had not been treated psychiatrically and in the last year he did not take any medications. Investigators are waiting for toxicological opinions, in the field of autopsy, forensic and psychiatric.
We need to determine if there are premises for accusing someone, i.e. whether someone was fully aware. Further steps of the prosecutor’s office depend on the commissioned psychiatric opinion
– emphasized prosecutor Skiba.
A criminologist with a suspicious 22-year-old. There is such a risk
What will be the opinion, we don’t know it. However, there are premises that Mieszko R. may be considered insane at the time of committing a crime. And this could make him not stand before the court.
PAP talks about such a scenario prof. Brunon Hołyst, lawyer, criminologist. Prof. Hołyst, thinking about the motives that led the perpetrator, expressed the supposition that a young man could be mentally ill.
We don’t know much yet, but the perpetrator will soon be subject to psychological and psychiatric examination and many cases will be clarified
– the scientist pointed out.
In his opinion, the hypothesis about mental disorders is all the more likely because the course of the crime shows that Mieszko R., unlike « normal » killers, did not know his victim, so he could not be guided by, for example, revenge, so « here such negative emotions are not an option. »
Prof. Hołyst admitted that in his career he did not meet a similar case of murder, but also in the case of disturbed killers everyone has some motivation, even if the reason is a product of a sick mind.
As the scientist emphasized, if the experts stated that the perpetrator was in a state of insanity, i.e. he did not have the ability to recognize the meaning of the act or manage with his conduct, which was caused by mental illness, mental retardation or other disruption of mental activities, he may not be in court, but he would be placed in a hospital for the mentally ill.
How long he will stay depends on it – as he emphasized – « whether the causes of the disease are endogenous or exogenous. »
If endogenous, i.e. internal, innate, it is possible that he will never cure himself
– said the criminologist.
There are also many external factors that could lead Miłosz R. to such a state and pushed into criminal activities
– reported prof. Hołyst.
He mentioned, among others Strong stress, but he noted that everything depends on the intensification of those factors that cause psychosis.
(Source: Fakt.pl, PAP)
