A 39-year-old wheelchair user from Eschwege was brutally attacked and robbed early on Saturday morning ( April 30) in the green area in front of the Church of the Resurrection. According to the police, the man was driving his wheelchair on the footpath in front of the church in Eschwege at around 5.40 a.m. because he wanted to cross the road Westring to the Eschwege train station to catch a train.
In the green area in front of the church in Eschwege, an unknown male perpetrator approached the man and threatened him in English with the words “Money or die!” At the same time, the perpetrator was already holding a beer bottle threateningly in his hand.
The wheelchair user replied that he did not have any money with him, whereupon the perpetrator hit him on the head with the beer bottle. Dazed and with a headache, the wheelchair user fled via the streets Eichenweg and Westring in the direction of the railway station. According to the victim, the unknown perpetrator fled into the green area in the direction of Südring.
According to his own statements, the 39-year-old victim only recovered consciousness four hours after the crime and then reported to the police in Eschwege. He said that the perpetrator had robbed a small bag with clothes. The victim’s head injury had to be treated in hospital.
The perpetrator is described as a 16 to 17 year old man, about 1.70 metres tall and very thin and dark-skinned with black curly hair. He was dressed in a white jumper with a high collar and dark trousers with a light stripe. Any information can be obtained from the police in Eschwege by calling 0 56 51/9250.