Berlin
police identify U-Bahn attacker, no arrest yet
DPA/The Local
news@thelocal.de
14 December 2016
14:46 CET+01:00
The man, whose
brutal attack on a woman at a Berlin U-Bahn station went viral, has
been identified but not arrested, officials said on Wednesday.
Public prosecutors
said they had identified the man who kicked a 26-year-old woman down
a flight of stairs at a Berlin U-Bahn station.
According to Berlin
tabloid B.Z., police had not been able to apprehend the suspect
because he had gone to his home country of Bulgaria. But prosecutor
Martin Steltner told DPA of this report that: “We will
investigate.”
Tagesspiegel
reported that police would neither confirm nor deny the report to
their journalists.
The assault had
taken place in October at the Hermannstrasse U-Bahn station, but
police last week released CCTV footage vividly depicting how the man
- seemingly unprovoked - had kicked the woman in the back, causing
her to fall face-first to the platform below. He and several
acquaintances then walked away while others on the platform came to
the woman’s aid.
The clip was shared
across social media and even gained attention in international media.
Two private citizens
in Berlin had offered thousands of euros in reward money to whoever
could identify the attacker, who left the woman with a broken arm.
According to
Tagesspiegel, all four men captured in the video were related to one
another and came from Bulgaria. Police this week had found and
questioned one of the acquaintances seen in the video, but he was
later released because there was not enough evidence of a crime on
his part.
Tagesspiegel further
cited security sources who said it could not be ruled out that
releasing the video may have contributed to the main suspect’s
decision to leave Germany.
But Steltner told
the newspaper that there was still hope that officials would be able
to arrest the perpetrator.
A similar attack was
reported in Munich days after the video was released. There, a woman
reported being kicked woman down an escalator in an U-Bahn station on
Saturday and having her purse snatched by three men. Police are still
searching for the culprits.
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