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Garut Resort Police (Polres) has prepared a team of psychiatrists and criminal experts to examine people with mental disorders (ODGJ) who burned a mosque in Leles District, Garut Regency, West Java, to ensure the continuation of their legal status.

"We examined witnesses, collected evidence related to the case and we have coordinated with psychiatric doctors and also with criminal experts," said Garut Police Chief AKBP Rio Wahyu Anggoro, followed by ANTARA, Friday, January 27.

He said the perpetrator with the initials E (29) was arrested after the incident of burning a mosque in Lembang Village, Leles District, Garut Regency, Sunday night, January 22, 2023.

The perpetrator has been arrested and taken to a mental hospital in West Bandung Regency for further medical treatment.

The police chief said that the police were still carrying out legal proceedings against the perpetrators, even though they had obtained witness statements and a medical history that the perpetrator had a mental disorder.

The results of the examination by the expert team, said the Police Chief, will be submitted to the public on Monday, January 30. The expert team will explain whether the perpetrator has a mental disorder or not, and also the case has been decided to continue to investigate or be stopped.

"Monday tomorrow we will decide whether or not this case is appropriate to continue," he said.

Rio revealed that so far the police have collected witness statements from residents and families of the perpetrators who explained that the perpetrators had suffered from mental disorders for a long time and had been hospitalized three times.

Pengakuan keluarganya, bahwa pelaku selama ini dijaga dan tinggal di rumah keluarganya. Saat hari kejadian pelaku sempat meminta izin pergi ke toilet, namun ternyata keluar rumah dan pergi ke masjid.

"After maghrib concerned, permission to go to the toilet, then take action that caused the room (mosque) to catch fire," he said.

The results of the previous examination showed that the reason the perpetrator burned the mosque was because it was cold, then burned something like paper in the mosque.

As a result of his actions, some of the buildings to the roof of the mosque caught fire and could no longer be used by worshipers.