On June 29, 2020, a 25-year-old female German passenger, Marie H. was verbally and physically attacked by a violent “asylum seeker” as she and her dog rode aboard a suburban train in Berlin. Fellow train passengers stood idly by and watched. Instead of coming to the woman’s aid, one passenger took the opportunity to film part of the attack, which went viral. German police called for more “civil courage” from the public.
Marie was on her way home on Monday afternoon at around 3 p.m. She was with her dog “Marni” aboard a relatively empty train on the way to the district of Höhenschönhausen. The 25-year-old woman witnessed a young man with a backpack being attacked by another violent migrant passenger. Marie wanted to help the man with the backpack “because the attacker was very aggressive and wanted to hit him” and he seemed to be “mentally restricted.” Unfortunately, when Marie intervened to help, she became a victim herself. The “dark-skinned man with a red T-shirt, baseball cap and shoulder bag, attacked her. He hit her violently, kicked her stomach, and in her head.”
Cries for help are ignored by witnesses
The kneeling young woman kept calling for help, while the people in the compartment stood around indecisively. Only one young man, with a wild curly hair and light brown trousers tries, hesitantly tried to verbally appease the aggressor in vain, who was enraged.
When Marie tried to stand up again, the migrant stomped back over to her and shouts: “I’m fucking your mama!” The girl fearfully held her hand in front of her face in anticipation of being beaten.
“Can you help me, please?”, she implored to the curly-haired man. When Marie tried to create distance between herself and the migrant, he shouted at her several times: “Come to me! Come on, come to me!” and “You’re nobody!” “You’re nobody!”
Man sneaks away, without helping
While this is happening, in the foreground of the video, we can see how one of the passengers, a burly looking young man with a backpack, white shorts, quietly and inconspicuously moves from standing at the far right end of the compartment to the nearest exit without making any effort to help Marie.
A few seconds later the S-Bahn stops at Gehrenstraße station. The man with the backpack leaves the compartment without further ado about what was going on just a few meters away from him. Near the exit where the young woman is standing, the sliding door of the train also opens. The migrant uses this opportunity to push Marie out into the open with full force. The young woman is desperate because her dog is still on the train. Despite the presence of the violent migrant, she tries to get back into the compartment to her dog. This leads to further scuffles. Marie pleads more and more desperately:
“Can you help me, please, can you help me… please, can you help me… please! I’m getting beat up...