A Chilling Tale from Munich: The Mysterious Death of Kamilla in a Psychiatric Hospital
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"My child was taken by a beast," say the tears-choked words of Eleonora Nagy. She's lost faith in the system, feeling it's trying to sweep her daughter's horrific death under the rug. "We want justice," she reiterates.
In the year 2022, her 40-year-old daughter, Kamilla, lost her life in a psychiatric hospital near Munich. A man, who had declared his intent to kill someone and was subsequently hospitalized involuntarily, ended her life in her hospital room.
"The circumstances surrounding this heinous act remain shrouded in mystery," states Jella von Wiarda, Kamilla's family's lawyer. They've petitioned for a thorough, rule-of-law investigation, and have thus filed an application for mandatory prosecution at the Munich Higher Regional Court.
A court spokesperson confirms the application's receipt, and the files have been requested by the General Prosecutor's Office. However, the timeline for reaching a decision on the application remains unclear at present.
The Confessional Testimony: A Brutal Murder
The man who took his fellow patient's life at the Isar-Amper Clinic later confessed in court to torturing Kamilla with a metal rod, strangling her with her sweater, and setting her on fire. Through his lawyer, the 33-year-old assailant claimed that God commanded him to commit these heinous acts, as Kamilla was allegedly a witch.
"Kamilla wasn't run over by a truck on the road," her mother laments. "She was killed in a safe haven," a place where she was meant to find healing.
The man had been admitted to the clinic just a few hours prior to the crime, after confessing to authorities that he had murdered a dog on God's orders and was planning to kill a human. According to von Wiarda, the man stuck a pair of scissors into the dog's armpit and then strangled it.
Not long after, he allegedly removed the rod from his bathroom's shower curtain and proceeded to strike Kamilla on the head with it twenty times before strangling her with a sweater and setting the fire.
Why Wasn't anyone Stopped Him?
"This man was able to roam freely throughout a locked psychiatric ward," says lawyer von Wiarda. He managed to steal the rod unnoticed and wandered the corridors with it. "It wasn't until the fire alarm was triggered that the staff reacted."
Court documents suggest that the act of violence lasted for as long as an hour. "The duration of this heinous act is still unknown," says von Wiarda, noting the brutality of the execution.
Why did the man attack his fellow patient undisturbed? Why didn't anyone intervene? Still, today, these questions hang heavy over the ears of Kamilla's grieving parents.
In 2022, the Munich I Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation to determine whether the treating doctors or nursing staff's negligence could be proven in connection with the patient's death, effectively simplifying the assailant's actions. The charge levied: negligent homicide through the failure to act.
The public prosecutor's office acquired an expert opinion, questioned witnesses, and ultimately discontinued the proceedings in January of this year. The reasoning: "No overtly criminal behavior could be established with the necessary level of certainty for a criminal trial." The Munich Higher Regional Court denied the following complaint against the discontinuation. The unfavorable decision was received on March 24.
The Isar-Amper Clinic has refused to comment on the incident — not even on whether security measures within the facility have been tightened since then.
Sadly, Kamilla wasn't the only victim that day. The man who killed her, and according to Nagy and her lawyer, was not examined upon admission, left the clinic as a criminal offender. Perhaps another mother somewhere is mourning the death of her child at the hands of a similarly inattentive system. "I'll never see her smile again," says Eleonora Nagy, remembering her daughter.
- Psychiatry
- Munich
- Death
- Patient
- "Eleonora Nagy calls for a thorough investigation into her daughter Kamilla's death, believing the system is attempting to hide the truth about the event."
- "Jella von Wiarda, the family's lawyer, has filed an application for mandatory prosecution at the Munich Higher Regional Court to push for a rule-of-law inquiry into the tragedy."
- "The 33-year-old man responsible for Kamilla's death confessed to using a metal rod, strangling her, and setting her on fire, claiming God commanded him to do so as he believed Kamilla was a witch."
- "The man removed the rod for the murder weapon unnoticed while roaming the locked psychiatric ward, with the attack lasting for over an hour."
- "The Munich I Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation in 2022 to determine whether the hospital's staff's negligence contributed to Kamilla's death, but it was ultimately discontinued in January of the same year, leaving the family without justice."
