2026年7月8日 / 美国东部时间上午9:06 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
一名德国姑息治疗医生被指控杀害15名患者，检察官称其“有杀人欲”，该医生于周三被判有罪并被判处终身监禁。
这位现年41岁的柏林医生仅被公开身份为约翰内斯·M.，据称他在2021年9月至2024年7月期间，使用致命镇静剂混合制剂杀害了12名女性和3名男性。
他至少有五次被指控纵火焚烧受害者的公寓以掩盖杀人行径。
主审法官西尔维娅·布施表示，这15起谋杀罪的定罪可能只是其众多罪行的冰山一角。
检察官在庭审期间表示，他还被怀疑杀害了另外70多人。
柏林检察官办公室在一份声明中称，该医生“在患者不知情且未获得同意的情况下，为其注射麻醉剂和肌肉松弛剂”。“后者会麻痹呼吸肌，导致呼吸骤停并在数分钟内死亡。”
检方此前曾要求判处其终身监禁，采取额外措施降低其提前获释的可能性，并永久剥夺其行医资格。
7月8日，约翰内斯·M.当庭承认自己“杀过人”，并告诉法庭：“我对自己感到绝望。”
据《法兰克福汇报》报道，他表示自己直到现在才理解自己所造成的“痛苦程度”。
随着针对一名姑息治疗医生的谋杀审判重启，辩护律师于2026年7月8日站在了空无一人的玻璃被告席前。被控医生并未出庭。
检方和警方此前表示，这名嫌疑人的杀人行为并无其他动机，仅仅是为了杀人，其行为符合法律上“杀人欲”的定义。
所有受害者当时都在接受护理，年龄在25岁至94岁之间。
“人们为何杀人？”
嫌疑人曾被指控在同一天杀害两名患者。
2024年7月8日上午，他据称在柏林中部克罗伊茨贝格区的家中杀害了一名75岁男子。
数小时后，他据称再次作案，在邻近的新克尔恩区杀害了一名76岁女子。
检方称，这名嫌疑人试图焚烧犯罪现场，但因火势未能蔓延而失败。
对约翰内斯·M.的活动怀疑最初由护理服务机构提出，随后启动了警方调查。他于2024年8月被还押候审。
调查人员最初调查了四起案件，但可疑死亡事件数量持续增加，目前仍有更多案件在调查中。
“除了杀人行为本身，被告似乎没有其他杀害他人的动机，”检方去年曾表示。
据德国媒体报道，约翰内斯·M.的博士论文主题是杀人案，开篇第一句就是：“人们为何杀人？”
这起案件让人联想到德国护士尼尔斯·赫格尔的案件，他于2019年因谋杀85名患者被判处终身监禁。赫格尔被认为是现代德国最多产的连环杀手，2000年至2005年间，他通过致命注射杀害了医院患者，最终在作案时被抓获。
在另一起案件中，一名姑息治疗护士于去年11月因用致命注射杀害10名患者、企图杀害另外27人被判处终身监禁。
去年，德国警方透露，他们正在调查另一名涉嫌杀害多名主要为老年患者的医生。
Doctor with “lust for murder” convicted in deaths of 15 patients in Germany, sentenced to life in prison
July 8, 2026 / 9:06 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
A German palliative care doctor accused of killing 15 patients and described by prosecutors as having “a lust for murder” was convicted Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison.
The 41-year-old Berlin doctor, identified only as Johannes M., allegedly killed 12 women and three men between September 2021 and July 2024 using deadly cocktails of sedatives.
On at least five occasions, he allegedly set fire to the victims’ apartments to cover up the killings.
Presiding judge Sylvia Busch said the conviction for 15 murders may well be only a glimpse of his many crimes.
Prosecutors said during the proceedings that he was suspected of having killed more than 70 other people.
The doctor allegedly “administered an anesthetic and a muscle relaxant to his patients without their knowledge or consent,” the Berlin prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “The latter paralyzed the respiratory muscles, leading to respiratory arrest and death within minutes.”
Prosecutors previously demanded a life sentence, additional steps to make early release less likely and a lifetime ban from practicing medicine.
On Monday Johannes M. confessed that he had “killed people” and told the court that “I despair at myself.”
He said he only now understood “the extent of the suffering” he had caused, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily reported.
As the murder trial against a palliative care physician resumed, the defense attorneys stood in front of the empty glass booth on July 8, 2026. The accused physician did not appear in court. Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images
Prosecutors and police previously saidthat the accused is said to have had no motive beyond killing, and that the suspect’s acts meet the legal definition of “lust for murder.”
The victims, who were all receiving care at the time, were aged between 25 and 94 years old.
“Why do people kill?”
On one occasion, the suspect is accused of having killed two patients on the same day.
On the morning of July 8, 2024, he is alleged to have killed a 75-year-old man at his home in the central Berlin district of Kreuzberg.
A few hours later he allegedly struck again, killing a 76-year-old woman in the neighboring Neukoelln district.
The suspect’s alleged attempt to incinerate the crime scene failed when the fire did not catch, prosecutors said.
Suspicions over Johannes M.’s activities were initially raised by care services, leading to a police investigation. He was remanded in custody in August 2024.
Investigators looked into four cases, but the number of suspicious deaths continued to grow, with further cases still being looked into.
“The accused appears to have had no motive for killing the people other than the act of killing itself,” prosecutors said last year.
According to German media, Johannes M. wrote his doctoral thesis on homicides and started the paper with the words, “Why do people kill?”
The case recalls that of the German nurse Niels Hoegel, who was jailed for life in 2019 for murdering 85 patients. Hoegel, believed to be modern Germany’smost prolific serial killer, murdered hospital patients with lethal injections between 2000 and 2005, before he was eventually caught in the act.
In another case, a palliative care nurse was sentenced to life in jail in November for the murder of 10 patients and attempted murder of 27 others with lethal injections.
Last year, German police revealed they were investigating another doctor suspected of killing several mainly elderly patients.
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