Arsonists and beating orgies in Berlin
Berlin – Why are so many people freaking out in this city? Like last Saturday evening in Spandau, when a radio patrol was called for disturbance of the peace in Müllerstrasse: When officials rang the doorbell of a 51-year-old, they heard the call that they should run away, that he would kill them all. When he opened the door, tenant hit a policewoman with a metal pipe. She was hospitalized with head and arm injuries. “Because of his state of mind,” the police said, the man was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
At the weekend, too, a man ran across Mühlenstrasse at “Rot” in Friedrichshain. A 53-year-old driver honked his horn, causing pedestrians to wean the car’s mirror. When the driver got out, the 23-year-old hit him several times on the head with a beer bottle. The police were able to arrest the man.
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On Monday it burned for the second time in the Kaufhof on Alexanderplatz. Clothes are on fire in the basement. The police suspect arson. Last week, a customer set fire to home textiles and hit employees with burning sheets. The police do not yet see a connection between the two fires.
A 28-year-old was beaten on Tuesday evening in a tram in Mitte. According to the police, he had clashed with a group of about 30 young people. He passed out and was taken to the hospital.
On Thursday afternoon it burned again – this time in Prenzlauer Berg on Ostseestrasse. Debris burned on a balcony. When the flames were out, the 23-year-old renter appeared and admitted to having started the fire.
In the afternoon of the same day, a 48-year-old man mobbed a child at the Hellersdorf underground station. When a passenger pulled away from the child, the drunk pushed him and his bike onto the tracks. As a subway was approaching, the 28-year-old left his bike and climbed back onto the platform with the help of other passengers. The wheel jammed under the train. Police arrest the perpetrator and determine that he has a breath alcohol level of over 2.6 per mille.
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