Processes – Cologne – Process: nurses are said to have strangled patients suffering from dementia – Panorama

Cologne (dpa / lnw) – A 47-year-old male nurse has to answer for manslaughter before the Cologne district court from today (9.15 a.m.). The prosecution accuses him of strangling a severely demented patient in April 2019 on a ward of the Wermelskirchen hospital in Bergisches Land. Previously, the 79-year-old patient is said to have repeatedly left his bed in a confused state. He ran across the ward, urinated on the floor and only allowed the nurse to bring him back to bed in protest.

“The indictment assumes that the defendant was overwhelmed with the various tasks on the ward in the specific situation,” said a spokesman for the regional court. The 47-year-old is said to have been responsible for 30 patients on the night of the crime, including the 79-year-old.

The process is scheduled to run until July 16 with seven days of negotiations.

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