The perpetrator: dockworker Brandon H. (25) beat the Hertha fan so badly that he fell and later died as a result Photo: Olaf Wagner
By Anne Losensky
Football in the Olympic Stadium, Hertha loses. A punch kills a Hertha fan…
May 19, 2022, the home game Hertha BSC against Hamburger SV ends 0:1. Thousands of football fans stream out of the Olympic Stadium, with cars in between.
An E-Class Mercedes stops: catering entrepreneur Michael R. (55) from Wedding stands in the way. The passenger gets out angry.
The widow (left) was present at the hearing as a joint plaintiff Photo: Olaf Wagner
“The man hit the bonnet, showed two fingers with both hands,” says dockworker Brandon H. (25) from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Friday as a defendant before the Berlin district court. “We yelled at each other. He slapped my ears right and left. I hit aimlessly. And was amazed when the big and strong man just fell backwards like that.”
He didn’t notice his head hitting the curb. He ran away and was beaten up himself. Only days later does he claim to have heard that the Berliner is in a coma. And the thug in Hansa-Rostock fan clothes is wanted.
The entrepreneur dies on June 21, 2022 (fracture of the base of the skull).
The victim: Entrepreneur Michael R. (55) Photo: Private
The Rostocker was arrested on August 3, 2022 and released on September 29, 2022. The charge of bodily harm resulting in death is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. “I had been drinking a lot,” he says, “otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten out.”
There are pictures on his cell phone that are supposed to show him boxing training. The football fan: “I have no martial arts experience at all!”
Judgment March 21.
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