German prosecutors announced that a 22-year-old Afghan migrant who fatally stabbed German university student Marius Dick, 22, in an unprovoked attack in Trier will not face criminal charges after a psychiatric assessment concluded that he was not criminally responsible for his actions.
The suspect, identified as Sajad Mirzaee, attacked Dick on July 15, 2026, as the student was walking home from a supermarket.
The two men did not know each other. Mirzaee pushed Dick into the street and repeatedly stabbed him in the upper body with a large kitchen knife, including a wound to the heart.
Dick, a history and political science student from Landstuhl who was approaching graduation, died shortly afterward in hospital.
The Afghan suspect entered Germany in 2015 as an unaccompanied minor during the migration crisis. His asylum application was rejected in 2017, but German authorities granted him protection against deportation to Afghanistan. He subsequently obtained permanent residency in 2023.
The victim’s parents, Elke and Thomas Dick, have publicly expressed their anguish and frustration over the decision.
“For us, it was clearly murder,” Thomas Dick said, expressing concern that the suspect could eventually be released following psychiatric assessments.