A 75-year-old man is said to have attacked his daughter with a machete when she visited him in a Berlin retirement home. The 43-year-old was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, police and prosecutors said. A homicide squad took over the investigation into an attempted homicide. There are indications that the 75-year-old has a mental illness. That’s why the public prosecutor’s office wanted to obtain placement in a psychiatric hospital.
According to the information, the 43-year-old daughter visited her father in the morning at the home on Stargardter Straße in Berlin-Reinickendorf. The man is then said to have suddenly “attacked his daughter with a machete with the intent to kill,” the investigators explained. He is said to have stabbed her in the upper body. A nurse managed to wrest the machete from the accused. The suspect suffered injuries to his hand. He was also taken to the hospital for treatment, but will be brought before an investigating judge, it was said.
The background and exact sequence of events are still being determined, said a police spokesman. The 43-year-old daughter had to undergo emergency surgery. It initially remained unclear why the man in the retirement home had a machete. It is a knife with a very long blade, often called a “bush knife”. Police said emergency services confiscated the machete.
According to a report in the “Berliner Zeitung”, there is said to have been an argument between father and daughter. The man is then said to have stabbed the woman. The nursing staff alerted the police and fire department.
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