Forensic placement for schizophrenia patients extended
Published: Thursday, Aug 22nd 2024, 12:10
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The preventive placement of a 47-year-old man in the canton of Lucerne will not be lifted. He murdered his father together with his mother in 1996. Both had the delusional idea that the father was poisoning them.
The man was acquitted in 2000 on the grounds of incompetence. An initial outpatient measure failed and the subsequent inpatient therapeutic measure was canceled in 2019. Instead, the Emmen district child and adult protection authority (Kesb) ordered that he be placed in a care center.
This was reviewed and extended annually, according to a ruling by the Federal Supreme Court published on Thursday. Even after the last hearing in spring, the Kesb came to the conclusion that the requirements for placement were still met. Switzerland's highest court rejected an appeal by the person concerned. It confirmed the view of the lower court.
According to the experts, the 47-year-old suffers from chronic paranoid schizophrenia. He himself denies this diagnosis. He sees the reason for his acute psychotic episodes in the medication he is given. These are harmful to patients who, like him, have suffered a traumatic brain injury. (Judgment 5A_407/2024 of 7.8.2024)
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