It was a few seconds that were enough to destroy the life of a family. An inconceivable assassination out of the blue …
The random victim’s name is Regina G. (58). Now her son is collecting donations to give his mother the best possible treatment – and to give her back a piece of normality.
Flashback: It is September 4, 2021 at around 1.30 pm. Regina G. is voluntarily tending the flower beds on a quiet residential street in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf. Suddenly Abdul Malik A. (29) attacks her from behind, stabbing her several times in the neck with a knife.
The Afghan refugee injures the hobby gardener so severely that the doctors have to put her into a coma.
The shocking diagnosis: the attack irreparably destroyed the main artery that supplies blood to the left side of the brain. She suffers a severe cerebral infarction, whereupon most of the left side of the brain dies. Regina G. loses the ability to speak and is paralysed on one side.
When the police took Abdul Malik H. away, the arrested man told an officer that he had “sent Regina G. to paradise”. “Women are not supposed to work.”
On the fundraising platform “gofundme”, her son, who is organising the campaign, writes: “The fanatic who told the police that he had wanted to ‘send my mother to paradise’ did not know that my mother was in the process of making the world a more beautiful place herself”.
For years, she had been caring for neglected green spaces in Berlin. And: For 20 years she has helped refugees to learn German and then to study and work in Germany.
Regina G. is in a neuro-rehabilitation clinic, learning how to sit, stand, walk, eat and speak. The only word that the woman, formerly so joyful, can bring to her lips at the moment is “beautiful… beautiful”, according to her son.
But the highly specialised therapies are expensive, the health insurance only pays for basic therapies.
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