From the BZ editorial team
The public prosecutor’s office in Berlin has brought charges against a 21-year-old man who is said to have killed clan leader Mohamed Rabieh with multiple stab wounds at the “Neuköllner Maientage” in the Volkspark Hasenheide in 2022.
According to the prosecutor, the man is accused of treacherous murder. His then 19-year-old companion was charged with dangerous bodily harm and involvement in a brawl.
The 21-year-old was arrested in December 2022 when he entered BER Airport from Turkey.
Omar O. (21) was caught at BER Photo: Private
That had happened
Late in the evening of April 30, 2022 at around 11 p.m., one person was critically injured in an altercation during the “May Days” on Columbiadamm in Berlin-Neukölln and died a little later in the hospital.
Multiple stab wounds were found on the victim. Emergency doctors had fought for the life of the man on the grounds of the fair. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he died shortly afterwards.
Mohamed Rabieh (25) was attacked in the May days and died Photo: Private
As it later turned out, the victim was Mohammed Rabieh, the brother of Nidal R. The intensive offender was shot dead in September 2018 on Tempelhofer Feld.
Several men had ambushed 36-year-old Nidal Rabieh, who was known to the police as a repeat offender with connections to clans of Arab origin, on the outskirts of Neukölln – between families strolling and children playing. At 5:40 p.m., a man ran up to him, shot eight times and hit him multiple times.
The attack on Mohamed Rabieh on the “Neuköllner Maientageh” is said to have happened when he threatened an opponent with a pistol during an argument in front of a lottery booth. Previously, the men of both groups had gotten into a fight.
The police were busy at the funeral. At the beginning of May, the 25-year-old was buried in Schöneberg in the New Twelve Apostle Cemetery. Around 1000 men attended, including members and heads of well-known extended families. Nidal Rabieh had already been buried in the same cemetery in the presence of around 2,000 men from the clan scene from all over Germany.