Duesseldorf's University Hospital issued a
statement (in German) saying Mr Lubitz had attended the hospital on 10 March and last month.
Adding that it had handed his medical records over to prosecutors, it said
reports the co-pilot had been treated there for depression were incorrect.
Germany's Rheinischer Post newspaper, which spoke to the hospital, quoted its own unnamed sources as saying Mr Lubitz had been suffering from a
physical, rather than a mental, illness.'
Well, not quite. The hospital's statement (to which the RP article doesn't add anything) says that he went to the hospital twice for "diagnostic clarification" and that "reports that he was under treatment for depression at the hospital are false". It doesn't say anything about physical illness at all. It could be read that way, but it could also mean that he was treated somewhere else for depression and that he only went to the hospital for some special diagnostic procedure (e.g, MRT). Basically, the statement is a lengthy "no comment", and tells the media to get any further details from the prosecutor.