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The
Constitutional
Court
decided
to
adapt
domestic
law
to
some
extent
to
Article
5
§
1
(
e
)
of
the
Convention
,
by
means
of
a
construction
of
detention
of
convicted
offenders
with
alleged
“
mental
disorders
”
.
But
this
construction
was
applied
only
to
historic
cases
of
preventive
detention
,
resulting
for
those
cases
in
the
intended
result
of
keeping
the
targeted
detainees
in
custody
.
The
Karlsruhe
judges
did
not
apply
this
construction
to
future
preventive
detention
cases
.
For
the
latter
,
the
Constitutional
Court
only
imposed
the
requirement
of
a
distinction
to
be
respected
,
but
did
not
draw
any
connection
with
the
necessity
of
a
mental
disorder
.
This
is
the
reason
why
,
as
the
applicant
claimed
,
only
a
minority
of
the
persons
in
preventive
detention
in
the
new
Straubing
centre
were
detained
as
mental
health
patients
.
Since
the
criteria
for
categorising
these
institutions
as
being
institutions
for
mental
health
patients
follow
legal
categories
,
and
not
medical
ones
,
it
is
more
than
comprehensible
to
ask
whether
these
institutions
are
in
fact
also
psychiatric
.
The
same
institution
can
not
simultaneously
be
a
psychiatric
institution
for
some
detainees
and
not
for
others
.
If
for
the
majority
of
those
detained
in
such
an
institution
it
is
not
reasonable
to
operate
it
as
institution
for
mental
-
health
patients
,
it
would
have
to
be
ascertained
whether
it
can
be
and
actually
is
a
psychiatric
institution
for
the
minority
.
On
the
contrary
,
if
such
an
institution
were
a
psychiatric
institution
,
there
would
be
a
pressing
need
to
justify
the
confinement
of
non
-
mental
-
health
-
patients
(
the
“
regular
”
Sicherungsverwahrten
)
in
this
environment
,
because
it
is
inappropriate
to
treat
such
detainees
as
if
they
were
mental
health
patients
.
The
Government
failed
to
meet
this
need
in
the
present
case
.
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