The Syrian “devitrification specialist” is responsible for 245 car windscreens. 10 plain-clothes investigators were deployed in Hamburg to put a stop to 31-year-old Firas A.. But the judge had mercy on the specialist and released him from custody. This was the undoing of an 84-year-old pensioner. Firas attacked her at a cash machine, injured her and fled with the loot. Now the police are searching for him once again.
When it comes to foreign “skilled workers”, German judges are most accommodating in keeping them in the country. The Syrian Firas A. was repeatedly caught driving without a licence. On April 29, the officers were fed up and confiscated his car keys. Apparently this infuriated him so much that he went out with a hammer and frightened motorists in the west of Hamburg. 245 smashed windscreens are presumably to his credit. From May to June, 10 plainclothes police officers were deployed to catch him in the act. During the search, the officers confiscated his hammer and a prohibited combination of brass knuckles and knife.
The 31-year-old is quickly released thanks to an empathetic judge and is caught again – surprise – driving without a licence. For the judiciary, this relapse is apparently still no reason to arrest the Syrian.
Now he escalates his outrages. His next victim is an old woman who withdraws money from an ATM in front of the shopping centre “Osdorfer Born”. Firas A. brutally snatches the money out of the pensioner’s hands, but she resists bravely and fights for her banknotes. The money falls to the ground, the perpetrator is able to collect some of it and flees. The 84-year-old woman is left behind and pays for her struggle with bruises on her hand and a cut.
Thanks to the surveillance cameras everywhere, the investigators soon realise that we know this man. The perpetrator is Firas A. The Syrian devitrification specialist has made a step up in his career to become a brutal robber. Six patrol cars searched for him immediately after the crime without success. Now the police are on the lookout again.