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‘Vampire’ man sentenced for blood attack

A man who thought he was a vampire and attacked his father to drink his blood was given a three-year suspended sentence on Monday. If he bites anyone again he will have to go to a psychiatric hospital.

'Vampire' man sentenced for blood attack
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The 39-year-old named only as Raimund G., from the Bavarian village of Althegnenberg, decided last November that he was a vampire and had to drink blood to join an order of vampires, the Abendzeitung München newspaper reported. His chosen victim: his father Arnold.

One evening late last November, as the family sat around the dinner table, Raimund allegedly reached into a drawer, pulled out a knife and attacked his father, saying that he was a vampire and needed to kill him, the newspaper said.

His father was able to rip the knife from his hands, but when Raimund went after him with a second knife, he sustained a cut to his index finger, which bled profusely. His son allegedly licked up the blood from his cut, according to the Abendzeitung München.

By the time police arrived, Raimund G. was reportedly calmly standing at the fence talking to a neighbour, the paper said.

Raimund G.’s former girlfriend, who served as a witness in the trial, said he was not acting like himself that day and that he told her he felt “like a vampire.”

Now back living with his parents, Raimund G. said that he had been drinking heavily in the months prior to the attack, and his girlfriend said that she played a lot of video games with him at the time, some of them violent.

Investigators also found numerous horror films at his home.

He was convicted at the district court in Munich on charges of grievous bodily harm on Monday. The court said in a statement he was given a sentence of three years in a psychiatric hospital, but that this would run on probation.

DAPD/The Local/mbw

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Elon Musk visits Tesla’s sabotage-hit German factory

Elon Musk travelled Wednesday to Tesla's factory near Berlin to lend his workers "support" after the plant was forced to halt production by a suspected arson attack on nearby power lines.

Elon Musk visits Tesla's sabotage-hit German factory

The Tesla CEO addressed thousands of employees on arrival at the site, accusing “eco-terrorists” of the sabotage as he defended his company’s green credentials.

With his son X AE A-XII in his arms, Musk said: “I am here to support you.”

The billionaire’s visit came a week after power lines supplying the electric carmaker’s only European plant were set on fire in an act of sabotage claimed by a far-left group called the Vulkangruppe (Volcano Group).

READ ALSO: Far-left group claims ‘sabotage’ on Tesla’s German factory

Musk had said then that the attack was “extremely dumb”, while the company said it would cost it several hundred million euros.

A week on, the lights have come back on at the site, but Andre Thierig, who heads the site, said on LinkedIn that it would “take a bit of time” before production is back to full speed.

Industry experts have warned that the reputational impact caused by the sabotage on the region could be more severe than the losses suffered by Tesla.

Tesla’s German plant started production in 2022 following an arduous two-year approval and construction process dogged by administrative and legal obstacles.

Tesla wants to expand the site by 170 hectares and boost production up to one million vehicles annually to feed Europe’s growing demand for electric cars and take on rivals who are shifting away from combustion engine vehicles.

But the plans have annoyed local residents, who voted against the project in a non-binding ballot last month.

After the vote, Tesla said it might have to rethink the plans. Environmental activists opposed to the expansion of the factory have recently also set up a camp in a wooded area near the plant.

READ ALSO: Why is Tesla’s expansion near Berlin so controversial?

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