{"id":126463,"date":"2026-07-09T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/126463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:48:14","slug":"berlin-doctor-convicted-of-killing-15-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/126463\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Doctor Convicted of Killing 15 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/imago93603523-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden wp-image-183469\"  \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/imago93603523-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183469\"  \/>Photo Credit: IMAGO\/Joko<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johannes M., a palliative care doctor, will serve a life sentence for murdering 15 people in their homes and in hospices. The accused murdered his victims using injections filled with various medicines. Twelve of his victims were women, three were men and all 15 were unsuspecting, trusting patients in his care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presiding judge Sylvia Busch could be heard saying \u201cunbelievable\u201d repeatedly as the 2-hour explanation of the verdict was delivered in the Berlin Regional Court. Busch also remarked that the accused murdered his victims \u201csimply because he was capable of killing.\u201d His actions in the eyes of the court were not motivated by compassion, nor were they a misguided sense of euthanasia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The verdict described the case as outrageous. \u201cThese acts are likely just the tip of the iceberg.\u201d The doctor, an alleged serial killer, carried out the murder of 15 people between 2021 and 2024. In addition to a lifetime prison sentence, the doctor has been sentenced to a lifelong professional ban.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 54th day of the court proceedings, only two weeks before the end of the trial, the doctor made a partial confession. He admitted to 12 of the 15 killings and explained that he was \u201conly now emotionally and intellectually able [\u2026] to explain my actions to myself and therefore only now able to take responsibility for my deeds.\u201d The court-appointed psychiatric expert described Johannes M. as a deeply insecure person who, however, did not suffer from any mental illness that could mitigate his guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: IMAGO\/Joko Johannes M., a palliative care doctor, will serve a life sentence for murdering 15 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,2261,5401,15661,190,2358,20032],"class_list":["post-126463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-court","tag-death","tag-doctor","tag-germany","tag-murder","tag-prison"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116891517779533101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}