By Anne Losensky
A father worries about his teenage daughter who is late from soccer practice. She walked through the park alone at night… The father wants to teach her a lesson: “Now we’re going back to the park so you can see how dangerous it is!” The lesson ends in blood…
Jungfernheide (Charlottenburg), August 11, 2021, just before midnight. A bloodied man is sitting on a park bench on Heckerdamm. The police are coming. An officer comforts the man: “Help is on the way.” But the policewoman unknowingly hugs the perpetrator! His victim is lying unconscious in the park!
One year later. The man from the park bench is sitting in front of the district court: Mounir M. (41). Moroccans, long in Berlin. Always worked a lot, most recently in a candy factory. No previous convictions. “I can’t explain what happened,” he says. “I lost my job, drank a lot of beer in the park. At night I heard a female voice in the park, apparently there was a fight with a man, I just wanted to help…”
What he doesn’t know: Father (40) and daughter (12) are arguing there. “She was way too late from soccer practice,” recalls drywall builder Tomas K. “I was worried, went to meet her. Saw her slowly strolling out of the park – in the middle of the night! She knows not to go that way!”
And further: “I said to her: We’re going back so you understand why you shouldn’t do that! We argued. I lost sight of her in the park. When she came back, a man followed her.”
He threw a full beer bottle, a second bottle splintered at the father’s feet. “My daughter was screaming,” he says. “The man forced me to my knees and said it wasn’t my daughter. I shouted to her: Run away! He stabbed me with a knife…”
And the father emphasizes: “I have no idea how I got out of there alive. Two days later I woke up in the hospital.”
Mounir M. refers to a “blackout”. no memory He only came to on the park bench with the policewoman: “I was covered in blood, but the blood wasn’t mine.”
The father was seriously injured. Operations, facial scars, one eye almost blind, the other damaged. Verdict: August 19.