Latest news Urbaniok and Werren investigate homicide on Basel's Nasenweg
The canton of Basel-Stadt has commissioned Andreas Werren and Frank Urbaniok to conduct an external investigation following the homicide on Nasenweg in August. The results should be available at the beginning of 2025.
27.09.2024, 11:01
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The aim of the investigation is to review the case, as the Department of Justice and Security and the Department of Health jointly announced on Friday. The case management, the risk assessments carried out, the cooperation between the agencies involved and the monitoring of the course of treatment are to be examined. The results of the investigation should be available by the beginning of next year.
Andreas Werren and Frank Urbaniok both have many years of experience in the field of forensics and the analysis of complex cases.
Werren is the former head of the Office of Corrections of the Canton of Zurich and now works as an independent consultant. Urbaniok is a professor of forensic psychiatry and a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. He was head physician of the Psychiatric Psychological Service (PPD) in the prison system of the Canton of Zurich for over 20 years. Since 2018, he has been working in his own practice as a consultant, therapist, supervisor and expert witness. Urbaniok has played a key role in shaping forensic psychiatry in Switzerland, the statement continues.
A 75-year-old woman was killed in an apartment building on Nasenweg on August 8. After a one-day escape, the police arrested a 32-year-old Swiss man. The suspect is a repeat offender who was in the University Psychiatric Clinics in Basel and was on unaccompanied release.
The man, who suffers from schizophrenia, had already stabbed two women and seriously injured an elderly man with a knife in the same neighborhood on November 3, 2014. In mid-August, the canton announced an external analysis to clarify the case.
