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Berlin Police Probe Schöneberg Bar Assault as Possible Hate Crime

Police assigned the case to the State Protection unit to probe suspected hate motives.

Overview

  • Two 32-year-old men were attacked after leaving a bar on Winterfeldtstraße in Berlin’s Schöneberg district.
  • The assailants asked if they were gay and if they knew a gay bar, then used racist slurs based on the victims’ appearance.
  • Police said one attacker swung and missed at their heads and torsos as the other kicked both men in the head.
  • The victims reported headaches, one had a laceration and lost his glasses, and both declined medical treatment.
  • Officers searched the area but did not find the suspects, and the State Protection unit has taken over the case on charges of dangerous bodily harm and racist insult.