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.
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.