In the meantime we know who the knifeman is. The “38-year-old” is “German” with a Turkish migration background and is not unknown to the police. He has a criminal record for various offences and is (of course) mentally ill, which is why he did not end up in prison, but in a psychiatric ward.
As our editorial team has already suspected, it would (of course) be unpleasant for the mainstream to have to admit that the man is, in the end, “religious”.
Let’s stick with the mainstream media and “work” through from today to the past. Let’s start with today’s Tagesspiegel:
Today’s headline:
“Knife attack on schoolgirls in Berlin-Neukölln: perpetrator to be sent to psychiatric ward – probably ill because of drug use”
and further:
“The public prosecutor’s office in Berlin sees indications that the perpetrator, Berhan S., is mentally ill as a result of drug use …”
And now let’s take a look at the newspaper Tagesspiegel 14 years ago:
“01.09.2009
After the knife attack on a 24-year-old woman in Kreuzberg on Saturday, the victim’s mother is making serious accusations against her partner. She alleges that it was he who stabbed and beat her daughter. She says he has been bullying her for years. Out of fear of her companion’s strictly religious Turkish family, her daughter had not dared to separate from the man until now. As reported in a partial edition, investigators have doubts about what allegedly took place on Saturday evening in the flat at Mehringplatz. The victim, Sonja S. – a German whose mother is Turkish – testified that the doorbell rang. When she opened the door, a man wearing a black mask stabbed her without a word. Her partner, Berhan S., was in the flat and called the police. Sonja S. was taken to a hospital.
For years my daughter has been beaten up by her boyfriend’, the mother, Gürsel S., told the newspaper, the Tagesspiegel. The couple have a daughter together (1). ‘The child is now with her family,’ she said. Her daughter had met Berhan S. when she was 17 years old. Five years ago, the man had beaten Sonja S. up during her internship in a beauty salon, she said, ‘but he and his strictly religious family kept threatening to kill her and me if she testified to the police,’ the mother claimed. According to information from the Tagesspiegel, Berhan S. is known to the police: Eleven charges of threats, several coercions, bodily harm and insults are in his file …” (emphasis added by the editor)