Police Respond to Incident in Reinickendorf, Berlin
On Wednesday morning, police were called to a location in Reinickendorf, a neighborhood in the northwest of Berlin. A lifeless person was reported on a sidewalk near a school around 8 a.m. The man was then pronounced dead upon the arrival of emergency services. A homicide investigation has been launched, with the victim previously reported to have stormed into a bakery armed with a machete.
According to information from the Berliner Zeitung, the unidentified attacker was chased out of the bakery by other individuals present. Further details on the incident include:
“Afterwards, five men armed with baseball bats are said to have pursued and beaten him to death.”
The Berlin Police’s social media team published a video press release on X in the morning, confirming the media reports. The statement reads:
“A male person was found unconscious on the sidewalk in the Walliser Street in Reinickendorf this morning. Despite immediate resuscitation efforts by a colleague and the fire brigade, he died. Several people have been temporarily detained. Further investigations are being conducted by our homicide squad.”
The BZ article quotes the spokesperson of the Berlin Police Union stating:
“We unfortunately experience in the capital more and more that conflicts are settled with violence and the use of deadly weapons.”
According to t-online information, school staff witnessed the attack on the man. Several suspicious individuals who were in the vicinity of the victim’s location were arrested as suspects. The victim is reported to have been beaten to death according to witness statements. The exact identity of the deceased and the precise details of the entire incident remain unknown.