Bloody knife attack in the Old Botanical Garden in Munich.
On Wednesday evening, at around 8.30 pm, an actually harmless request for a cigarette escalated. Two work colleagues, a 25-year-old and a 32-year-old Afghan (both asylum seekers), were brutally attacked and robbed by a group of men.
The 25-year-old security guard suffered a cut (10 centimetres long) on his face and several stab wounds on his arm when a 21-year-old Tunisian (also an asylum seeker) suddenly attacked him with a knife.
When the Afghan (32) rushed to help his colleague, five other acquaintances of the knifeman (one Italian and four Moroccans / Tunisians aged between 18 and 52) beat and kicked the two. In the process, they were robbed of their mobile phones and several hundred euros in cash (about 650 euros). The 32-year-old suffered various bruises and a laceration on his face.
Uninvolved witnesses alerted the police. All perpetrators could be temporarily arrested near the crime scene.
One Moroccan (52) tried in vain to escape during the transport to the police station and assaulted a police officer in the process. Another Moroccan (25) also spat at an officer.
At the scene, the police officers found a backpack with numerous packets of hashish ready for sale, which could be attributed to the 21-year-old knife attacker. His victim, the 25-year-old Afghan, had to be treated as an outpatient in a Munich hospital.
“The 21-year-old main perpetrator was taken into custody, while the five others involved were released the following day after undergoing police identification treatment,” said a spokesperson for the Munich police headquarters. The investigations were taken over by the police stations 21 (robbery offences) and 83 (narcotics offences).
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