A group of thugs severely beat an aspiring medical student, 23-year-old Paul S, fracturing his knee in seven different places and severely damaging his leg to the point that he needs a new knee. Now, after weeks of police failures, four suspects have finally been arrested.
Notably, three have German citizenship, but all come from foreign countries, namely Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Paul S. had left a bar with friends in Essen’s Rüttenscheid district when he and his friends were attacked by a mob of “Southern-looking men.” For the full details of the story, read this Remix News report here.
The beating was so severe that Paul now has his leg held together by screws and plates. It remains uncertain whetherhe will ever walk again, and doctors say it is likely he will need a new knee. His mother details how his dream job of being a surgeon now appears to be gone forever.
However, after the attack, just about every institution failed Paul. An emergency room doctor told him that there was nothing wrong, and she even denied him painkillers before another hospital took him in and revealed that he had one of the worst cases of damage to the knee they had ever seen.
Her decision to send him away without painkillers had a cascading effect on his case, as police were told there were light injuries. As a result, they did not search for witnesses or acquire surveillance footage. However, the police were reportedly quickly made aware of how serious the injuries were, but still did not seek out witnesses or other evidence.
Paul’s mother offered a €10,000 reward for information about the perpetrators, and it was only thanks to her efforts that the case is being cracked open.
“My son wants to become a surgeon,” said 46-year-old Jeanine S. when speaking with Bild.
She notes that doctors have to stand for long hours at an operating table, and now it is unclear if he will ever be able to do that.
“With these lifelong consequences, nobody knows,” she said.
On Jan. 10, around 12:15 a.m., two witnesses called the police and said they knew several of the thugs int the case. The suspects were tracked down in Christinenpark, where police pursued them while they tried to hide in a bush, according to Bild.
One suspect was a 17-year-old German citizen with Iraqi nationality, another was an 18-year-old German citizen with Afghan nationality, and another was a 19-year-old with German citizenship and Syrian nationality.
However, the fourth suspect is a 19-year-old German known as a serious and intensive offender. However, just the fact that he is German says nothing about his nationality background. While the other suspects are dual citizens, the fourth one may have a migration background, but that data is not made available to the public.
The case is notable because the mantra is that foreigners will come to Germany to be doctors and engineers, but in this case, they actually prematurely ended the career of one aspiring doctor. The same story is playing out across the country, with migrants committing an incredible amount of crime in Germany and Europe over the last 10 years.
