{"id":108835,"date":"2020-11-20T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108835"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:29:54","slug":"police-in-germany-launch-homicide-probe-into-doctor-who-allegedly-gave-2-covid-patients-lethal-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/20\/police-in-germany-launch-homicide-probe-into-doctor-who-allegedly-gave-2-covid-patients-lethal-injection\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in Germany launch homicide probe into doctor who allegedly gave 2 Covid patients lethal injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nGerman police are investigating a doctor who allegedly killed two critically ill Covid-19 patients, who were being treated in intensive care, with a lethal injection, a spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor, who has worked at Essen University Hospital as a senior physician since February, was arrested on November 18 on suspicion of intentionally fatally injecting the two men, the public prosecutor\u2019s office in Essen said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There is a suspicion that the doctor deliberately and illegally administered drugs to seriously ill people in their last phase of life, which led to their immediate death,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;investigators said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor was brought before a judge on November 19, who ordered that he be placed in pre-trial detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nPolice said the medic had explained that he had administered the lethal injection to one of the patients to stop them and their family&nbsp;<em>suffering\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;further.&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy RT German police are investigating a doctor who allegedly killed two critically ill Covid-19 patients, who were being treated in intensive care, with a lethal injection, a spokesperson said on Friday. The doctor, who has worked at Essen University Hospital as a senior physician since February, was arrested on November 18 on suspicion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}