A 21-year-old American tourist suffered serious injuries at the hands of two Syrian migrants in Dresden, and his impassioned video about the attack and Germany’s spiraling migrant crisis has gone viral. Now, the story, which was published in both German and American media, has prompted a rebuke from Richard Grenell, presidential envoy for special missions of the United States under the Trump administration.
Grenell was responding to a video released by the victim of the attack, which has already been censored on the Remix News X page. When Remix News attempts to embed the video, the below message is received, which typically means German or European authorities have tracked the video and censored it.
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The same error message is being received for larger accounts that shared the video, including Visegard24, which posted the same video. Notably, the Visegard24 account was the one Grenell responded to.
It appears the censors in Europe are very concerned about this video spreading.
The horrendous attack took place on a Dresden tram, and photos of the crime scene showed blood splattered everywhere. The incident was reported in the New York Post along with other American newspapers, and occurred at 12:25 a.m. on tram line 7 between Weixdorf and Pennrich.
The victim, according to the New York Post, is John Rudat, an American model in New York. It is very possible the man will suffer life-long scars. He also posted the video to his Instagram page.
In the video, Rudat says: “If they could do this to the people of Germany and then just get released 12 hours later, even less at this point, where’s the law? Where’s the structure? If Germans are held to that law and that structure, but these people can just come in, swing knives, hurt, abuse and terrorize the citizens of Germany, then?”
“If ya’ll didn’t think that Europe didn’t have an immigration problem, especially Germany, let me drop some knowledge on you,” he warns viewers while recounting his harrowing experience.
The fleeing stabber is known to police and remains on the run. His accomplice, a Syrian citizen, Majd A., was arrested after the attack about 700 meters away from where the stabbing took place and then quickly released.
“We are investigating him and the still unknown man for, among other things, dangerous bodily harm,” said a police spokesperson, Lukas Reumund.
Notably, the American was attempting to keep the men from harassing women on the tram.
According to police, “two men from a group were harassing female passengers.” The American stepped in to help the woman.
Police spokesperson Reumund told Bild: “A 21-year-old U.S. citizen intervened and was stabbed by one of the perpetrators in the ensuing altercation. The two perpetrators then fled the scene.”
Another police spokesperson, Thomas Geithner, told Bild: “The U.S. citizen suffered multiple cuts to his face with a knife.”
According to police sources, Majd A is not the stabbing perpetrator but did initially attack the U.S. citizen with punches. He is known to the police for previous bodily harm, robbery, and illegal entry.
Police spokesperson Geithner said: “He was provisionally arrested and released by decision of the public prosecutor’s office.”
Senior public prosecutor Jürgen Schmidt told Bild: “According to the assessment of the on-call public prosecutor, there were insufficient grounds for detention. The knife attack cannot be attributed to him.”
Apparently, despite assaulting the American with punches, the prosecutor did not believe they could obtain an arrest warrant from the judge. He also fled a crime scene and presumably obstructed justice, and yet, no arrest.
After the beating, the second suspect returned on the tram, this time armed with a knife, at which time he inflicted serious injuries on Rudat.
Rudat notes in his Instagram video that the attacker was released almost immediately.
Police allegedly have surveillance footage of the suspects, but once again, have not released any photos or videos, as is often the case in Germany. Often, only months later, after a judge has approved, will the police release surveillance footage or photos if a case remains open.
Knife crime has soared in Germany, in tandem with mass immigration, as Remix News reported earlier this year. According to the Police Crime Statistics (PKS), in 2024, approximately 29,000 crimes in Germany were recorded as knife attacks. In the area of dangerous and aggravated bodily harm, the number increased by approximately 10.8 percent.
In May, German criminal lawyer Udo Vetter warned that the country has “imported knife violence” following several high-profile incidents, including a Kosovar man injuring a 12-year-old girl and two others, a Syrian asylum seeker stabbing five people outside a student bar, and a rioter wounding a police officer. He pointed to cultural norms where knives are carried as status symbols.
Manuel Ostermann of the Federal Police Union also called for urgent action, warning that the knife “always immediately poses a concrete threat to life and limb” and that politicians must use all available measures to curb the trend.
