By Anne Losensky
His traffic light is red, but a man from Marzahn is still walking across the street – directly in front of a public bus. The emergency braking throws a pensioner through the bus and injures her head. The punishment for the man: six months imprisonment on probation!
Tiergarten District Court. Accused: Laborer Benjamin B. (29). Saturday, November 19, 2022. Pensioner Brigitte M. (72) picks up her husband from the hospital. Both are on the X69 bus on Mehrower Allee.
It is 11:30 a.m., the Lea-Grundig-Strasse stop is in sight. They want to get out right away, the pensioner is getting up.
Suddenly there is a violent jolt, the bus stops, the pensioner flies forward through the aisle and bumps her head. Comes to the same hospital she just picked up her husband from with bruises. Only because her husband was still seated did he remain unharmed.
“Job lost, aunt died, I had been drinking,” says the accused. When the schnapps was gone, there was a “confrontation” on the way to the “department store”, he says: “The bus honked at me, that triggered me.”
So he stayed in the middle of the street until the bus stopped. Then he hit the windshield and broke the windshield wipers. Kicked cops.
“Sorry, I was intoxicated,” says Benjamin B. (2.77 per mille at the time of the crime). “They have lost all composure,” says the judge. He now wants to “do therapy”.