BERLIN, May 8 (UPI) -- A Pakistani man imprisoned for trying to attack the editor of a German newspaper for printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed hanged himself in his cell.
On March 20, a Pakistani student the press has identified only as Aamir C., entered the building of publishing company Springer armed with a knife, aiming to attack Roger Koeppel, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Die Welt.
Police and security employees overpowered the man, who has been in pre-trial confinement since.
Last week, according to Monday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, the man was found dead, his head hanging in a sling made of his own clothes. German authorities have ordered a medical examination of the body.
Officials from the Pakistani embassy had said the student appeared well-spirited when he talked to them last month.
In Pakistan, the case has created furor as the media there claimed the student had been tortured by the German police, the newspaper said.
