In an emotional video, 17-year-old Dilan addresses the public. She reports from the hospital about a racist attack on a tram in which she was injured.
According to the police, a dispute about a mouth and nose cover in a tram in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg escalated on February 5, during which the young woman was brutally attacked and beaten. On Wednesday, the Berlin police then admitted an error in their first presentation on Sunday.
The question was whether the dispute broke out because of a missing corona mask or whether it was actually about racism, as Dilan (17) later emphasized in the video. The police said on Wednesday that the information used “came from the criminal complaints recorded on the spot, which, as further investigations have shown, were worded in an ambiguous way”. Various media and the dpa initially adopted the police’s original account of the incident.
The evaluation of videos showed that “the young person wore a mouth and nose cover when getting on and off the tram and only briefly pulled it down during the argument with the six adults that followed the racist insults.”
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Most of the six suspected adults did not wear masks during the argument at the tram stop on Greifswalder Straße. The police had arrested three suspected attackers on Saturday evening. On Sunday evening, the police added to the first message and wrote of “racist insult and assault” and looked for witnesses.
Dilan reports on the attack in an emotional video
In the almost ten-minute video from the hospital, the 17-year-old talked about the attack, sometimes crying: “I was beaten up yesterday because I’m a foreigner.”
She was held, six men and women beat and kicked her, hit her in the head, pulled her hair and racially abused her. She screamed and begged for help, but despite many people present, no one helped her.
The case had caused dismay and anger beyond the borders of Berlin.