Somali man goes on trial in Germany over fatal stabbings

Defendant Abdirahman J. from Somalia arrives in a courtroom at the start of his trial after killing three people and injuring eleven others with a knife in June 2021 at Barbarossaplatz in Wuerburg, in Veitshoechheim, Germany, April 22, 2022. Defendant pixalised on court request. REUTERS/Heiko Becker

BERLIN (Reuters) - A Somali man went on trial on Friday over the killing of three people and injuring of several others in a stabbing attack in southern Germany last June in proceedings to determine whether he should be held in a closed psychiatric facility.

Investigators believe the man was mentally ill at the time of the attack in the city of Wuerzburg, and so the trial will therefore establish whether he can be held criminally culpable.