A 36-year-old German father, Steven K., was left with severe facial injuries, hospitalized, and may require further surgery after telling a Romanian family they could not grill in the Friedrichsfelde district of Berlin on Sunday afternoon.

The victim, whose daughter is only three months old, was reportedly attacked after attempting to enforce a building-wide ban on grilling in the communal courtyard.

According to Steven K., several tenants had been frustrated since last year by the persistent smell of unauthorized barbecues in the yard, namely with one family consistently violating the rule. He explained the impact on his family to reporters:

“The plumes of smoke go straight into the children’s room window. We can’t open that anymore,” he told Bild newspaper.

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On the morning of the attack, Steven K. observed a family from Romania setting up tables and chairs in the courtyard as early as 8:00 a.m. He intervened three separate times to point out the barbecue ban. While the items were initially removed, they were repeatedly brought back out. After the third attempt, K. contacted the police.

Responding officers listened to the complaint and advised Steven K. to return to his apartment, telling him it was “for your own safety.”

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Shortly after, the situation escalated when a tenant allegedly issued a direct threat: “Watch out, my family is coming soon.”

The assault began when an Opel Corsa arrived at the scene. Steven K. described the sudden violence:

“An Opel Corsa pulled up. A man jumped out, with a woman and a child behind him.“

One man immediately sprayed pepper spray into K.’s face. Two men then proceeded to beat him with their fists and continued to kick him in the head and body even as he lay on the ground.

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The victim was transported to the hospital. As the photos of his face reveal, he was beaten to a pulp, all for asking the foreign family to simply abide by the rules everyone else has to follow.

Steven K. suffered from a broken and swollen nose, multiple hematomas across his face, a dislocated shoulder, and suspected tendon damage. His injuries are so severe that he may require future surgeries.

“I never thought that people could be so insidious and brutal because of something so trivial,” he said about the incident.

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The beating comes at a time when data shows that foreigners make up a record share of violent crime in Germany.

Meanwhile, despite investigators reportedly knowing the names of the suspects, they remain on the run and no arrests have yet been made.

The beating comes at a time when the issue of large foreign families grilling in public parks has become a sign of the demographic and societal upheaval brought on by mass immigration. Although just one aspect of the bigger picture, which involves chaotic schools, massive growing public debt, soaring crime rates, and burdened public services, it is an element that symbolizes the new “cityscape.”

Public parks, trains, buses, dance clubs, and streets have now become places where Germans feel insecure and threatened.

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Just days ago, on May 1, a large family grilling in Berlin’s Volkspark Friedrichshain refused police officer orders to disperse due to a grill ban in the park, according to BZ.

It is unclear if this is the same incident, but a video involving police officers breaking up an unauthorized grill party was recorded in Berlin on May 1 as well.

German police make arrests at a grill party on May 1.

Grilling is forbidden in Berlin parks to prevent fires, but these families decided to do it anyway.

When they refused to disperse, police made arrests, despite crying, screaming, and stamping.pic.twitter.com/YQcF9rt79n

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The incident resulted in a police chief inspector being beaten, kicked in the head, and bitten after he and his colleague asked the group to extinguish an unauthorized grill. The group was approximately ten people, but one of them even tried to steal the officer’s pepper spray.

One participant even used a walking stick as a weapon.

Reinforcements arrived on the scene and managed to arrest three suspects. These included two men, aged 40 and 41, and a 76-year-old woman who “allegedly beat the officer with her walking stick.” As the arrests were being made, the situation grew more tense as a nearby crowd showed solidarity with the group and began to harass the responding officers. This required the police to call for further support to maintain order.