The case of a psychopathic personality addicted to simulations of murder through g online gaming (online games) is another remote aspect, investigated by the officers of the Crimes against Life Department, for the "silent" murderer of the 52-year-old taxi driver in K.
In addition to the traditional search for evidence and witnesses, door to door, street to street, the police officers involved in the case, in the second year, will also engage in an electronic search for "fingerprints" of users, who use home connections and participate in online games violence and murder on the streets.
According to the Free Press on Sunday, some of the latest versions of games of this type, which include scenarios of extermination of motorists, have been associated with mass murders of individuals but also with individual cases of crime, even of a taxi driver. The authorities, although they believe that the perpetrator is obsessed with taxi drivers, motivated by an insignificant incident that caused his murder, can not rule out a parallel addiction to violent online games that gave him the "idea" of real things. of instincts.
Addiction to such games combined with a disturbed mental world, as experts explain, leads to extreme acts, without a trace of logic, which can be fatal either for the players themselves or for strangers. Some murders that took place in different parts of the world were committed in moments of weakness or mental disorder, where the perpetrator had lost himself in the surreal world of games or who was simply affected by the violence he witnessed every day.
Grand Theft Auto IV: Murder of a taxi driver
In 2008, a Thai taxi driver was stabbed to death by 19-year-old Polwat Chino, who, instead of paying for his race, stabbed and stole the unfortunate 54-year-old. The young man in his apology to the Authorities stated that he was influenced by the popular video game Grand Theft Auto. In fact, he tried to take one of the crazy routes of the game with the taxi, which he stated that he was addicted, while the lifeless body of the taxi driver was in the next seat.
Source: newsbeast.gr