The most recent attack on rescue workers of the Berlin fire brigade on Sunday in Kreuzberg makes affected: After the rescue workers from the father and brother of the patient were even beaten, they saved themselves for the protection in the ambulance and waited for the police. The treatment by an er doctor, had to be carried out under police protection.
“It is not going to tolerate that men, the help, a threat to expose,” says Thomas Kirstein, press spokesman for the Berlin fire Department on Monday. The incident on Sunday highlights the quality of the attack, but Attacks on firefighters are more or less commonplace. Understandable, this is by no means in spite of the frequency, finally, the fire Department, whether fire or rescue to help. So, too, on Sunday.
The mood was aggressive
The incident occurred late afternoon in the reichenberger Straße in Kreuzberg, after an ambulance and an emergency doctor had been called to a medical emergency. Already at the Arrival was in the apartment is a aggressive mood, as the fire Department announced on Monday. Apart from the patients, ten family members to be present, “the performance of our rescue forces are not satisfied,” said Kirstein.
The 44-year-old German-Turkish father of the patient was then, according to the police sized. He insulted and harassed the firemen and they referred finally to the apartment. As the ambulance arrived, and in addition, the 17-year-old German brother of the patient-side cart showed up in front of the house, escalated the Situation: firefighters and an er doctor were offended by the two families, harassed and beaten, and barricaded themselves for protection from further attacks in the ambulance until the police arrived. Only under police protection, the Patient was further investigated and was finally taken for further treatment in a hospital. Against the 44-Year-old and his 17-year-old son, a criminal investigation was initiated because of an assault charge.
Homrighausen takes a Zero-tolerance policy
Whether firefighters report Assaults in the service to the monitoring station, yet on a voluntary basis. In addition to physical violence-verbal violence, such as the Show of the middle finger or verbal violence such as verbal abuse, insult and threat count, of course. Country brand Director Karsten Homrighausen had announced with a view to feared attacks in the new year’s eve night at the end of December we have a Zero-tolerance policy, all reported Incidents criminal law should be prosecuted. Because even if it is difficult to make the attacker from the new year’s eve night, be recorded in the incidents, at least in the Police crime statistics. Only rarely, as in the case of the firecrackers attack on a paramedic in the past year, in fact, to a conviction.
What is the cause for the attacks?
again and again, attacks on rescue workers with cultural Differences the attacker will be explained. Firefighters in Germany can enjoy for years, even before maintenance personnel and pilots have the highest trust and Reputation in the population, it is estimated that the profession in many other countries is very low. May be this is also a reason why there are in the Berlin fire brigade, otherwise than in the Berlin police, striking little staff with a migrant background.
most of The attacks are perpetrated by people under the influence of alcohol or drugs, whether of German nationality or without, it is, in the fire Department. Similarly, a study by the University of Bochum to the experience of Violence against forces from the year 2017.
The Numbers are limited to the country North Rhine-Westphalia, a similar image, however, shows also in this country. Therefore, the perpetrator is in most cases male and in almost 50 percent of the cases under 30 years of age. In three out of four cases of physical violence, the action goes directly from the patient, in more than half of the physical attacks, the attacker is drunk.
most commonly, the attacks carried out by analog, by the way, during transport in the ambulance. A migration background of the perpetrator does not want to have found the same to be surveyed firefighters in 42 percent of cases of physical violence, the evidence is there, however.
In the case in Kreuzberg, none of the two attacks apparently trying.
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Berlin-Kreuzberg rescue workers to flee after the attack in the ambulance
Melanie Berger
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