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German nurse gets life in jail after killing 10 to reduce work (www.bbc.com)
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A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 others.

Prosecutors alleged that the man, who has not been publicly named, injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort to ease his workload during shifts overnight.

The offences were committed between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in Wuerselen, in western Germany.

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I Wonder how someone with such an apparent lack of empathy finds its way into a nursing profession

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    German here. Pretty sure that being an evil moron is a universal human quality not linked to state citizenship.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Many nursing schools and organisations in Germany are based on religious organisations, e.g. Caritas (catholicism), Diakonie (evangelical) and Johanniter (evangelical).

    The catholics and evangelicals run many ambulance services, hospitals, nursing services and hospices. My old landlord family, two of them being nurses and very right-wing, was very religious and literally labeled us as the antichrist because we had a pride flag and had gay friends.

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