Berlin police also reported violence against queer people this weekend, this time in the Charlottenburg district. According to the police report, a 19-year-old man reported that he was walking to a bar on Budapester Straße at around 1.45 a.m. on Sunday night, when he was approached in Arabic by an unknown man, who insulted him in a homophobic way and hit him in the face. The attacker then fled in an unknown direction.
The 19-year-old was injured on the cheek and refused medical treatment. The investigation into the insult and the assault is ongoing and has been taken over by the Police State Protection Service of the State Criminal Police Office. Further details about the attacker were not given by the police report.
There are repeated reports of assaults against queer people in Berlin, as the state police specifically publicise possible hate crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity and therefore report them to the public comparatively often. The police and the public prosecutor’s office in the capital have their own contact persons for LGBTI people.
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