A homophobic attack in a kiosk on Oranienstraße in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district resulted in a fight. The argument continued throughout the day and there were further physical altercations in a subway station.
According to the “Berliner Zeitung”, a homophobic incident occurred on Tuesday morning in a Spätkauf, one of Berlin’s well-known night kiosks, in Kreuzberg. This developed into a full-blown fight with glass bottles. According to police reports, two customers, aged 32 and 33, were insulted with homophobic remarks by an employee as they returned from the shop’s toilet. After a hospital stay, the altercation flared up again on the same day.
The “Berliner Zeitung” reports that all three people involved suffered head injuries and were taken to hospital for treatment. In addition, injuries to the arm of the 32-year-old customer who was attacked had to be treated. The altercation continued later that day when the two injured customers wanted to pick up a backpack at the Hermannplatz subway station in Neukölln, which had been left in the convenience store as a result of the incident.
The subway station was agreed upon as a meeting point with an unknown man. The newspaper learned from police sources that the unknown man demanded money for the return of the backpack. This caused another escalation. A witness stated that the owner of the backpack was beaten with fists. The unknown man is said to have even hit him several times with a stone. After the attack, the attacker fled. The two men had to go to the hospital again.
Another case of violence in front of a late-night shop in Berlin-Köpenick was similarly violent. The “Taz” newspaper reported on the act of violence, which was presumably committed by neo-Nazis. According to the report, a group was brutally beaten up by two men on Bahnhofstrasse.
The victim reported the course of events in the newspaper. He was at the kiosk with friends shortly before midnight and the perpetrators insulted them as “left-wing ticks with long hair”. After the group of friends initially ignored the verbal attacks, the situation escalated when racist hostility was directed at bystanders within sight of the convenience store. According to the newspaper report, those who had previously been insulted intervened and were subsequently attacked with kicks and punches.
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