Graz psychiatrist:

“Bomber crosses every inhibition threshold”

The search for the perpetrator is underway: Who is behind the attacks on Jehovah's Witnesses?(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Christian Jauschowetz und FF Zettling/Christian Glauninger)

This weekend, a congress of Jehovah's Witnesses is taking place in the Kirschenhalle in Hitzendorf, which is attracting particular attention. For months, fear has been running rampant in the religious community. What makes the bomber tick? We asked the renowned psychiatrist Manfred Walzl from Graz.

Jehovah's Witnesses in Styria have been in fear since last year. In August, bombs attached to two cars exploded during and after a prayer session. Seven months later, on Good Friday, an unknown perpetrator planted an explosive device in front of the denomination's Kingdom Hall in Kalsdorf. The police were able to defuse the "infernal machine".

After another alarm in Graz-Eggenberg - a suspicious parcel was fortunately only a misdelivered package - a car blew up in Zettling, south of Graz. Fortunately, there were no casualties. Strikingly, the attacker always struck on a Friday.