BERLIN—A man accused of driving into a school group in Berlin, killing a teacher, and leaving others injured, appears to have a history of mental illness, prosecutors said Thursday, adding that there was no sign of a terrorist motive for what appeared to have been a deliberate act.
A court ordered the man placed in a secure psychiatric hospital. He faces preliminary charges of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder, prosecutors said.
However, a spokesman for the prosecutors office, Sebastian Buechner, said it’s not clear whether the suspect could be held criminally responsible.
Investigators found medicines when they searched the man’s apartment, and “a great deal speaks for paranoid schizophrenia” as the suspect’s diagnosis, Buechner told reporters. “What there isn’t is indications of any kind of terrorist background.”…