It must have been a terrible shock for the children (about 13 years old). In the evening, Ismail S. (26) suddenly stood in front of them at the Gorbitz Centre car park shouting, making the cutthroat gesture and shouting: “I’ll slaughter you!”
Fortunately, Achmut Al D. (47) and Muhamed Al M. (27) intervened. But then the Eritrean attacked the two Iraqis with a knife. Now there was a trial at the district court.
“I was coming from work,” said geriatric carer Muhamed, who met Achmut on Harthaer Street. “There we saw the man shouting at children. We went there to protect the children.” While the children gratefully ran away, Ismail turned to the Iraqis.
“He called our mothers names, shouted insulting words and ‘Allahu akbar’,” said family father Achmut. Muhamed added: “At first he was ranting in German. When he realised we were Iraqis, he shouted at us in Arabic.”
Sentences were uttered like: “Call the police. I am not afraid. I’ll slaughter everyone. I’m not a man if I don’t kill you.” Then Ismail pulled out a knife and stabbed Muhamed in the leg.
The men fled, called the police, but kept an eye on the attacker. “I saw him suddenly running around with a big knife with a blade that must have been 40 centimetres long. It looked like he started a war,” said Achmut.As paramedics attended to the injured man, Ismail joined them: “I told them: That’s him, he has a knife. They let me into the ambulance and locked the doors,” said Muhamed.
Ismail, who was also accused of theft and fare evasion, said he could not remember anything, that he had been drunk. But he cannot avoid jail. Sentenced: 16 months imprisonment. Without parole.