Attack in a Berlin café
Biting attack and racist insults: AfD politicians fined
The Berlin AfD politician Kai Borrmann (r) sits in front of the Tiergarten district court at the start of the trial on January 18th
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After an attack on two women, a Berlin AfD politician was fined for assault and insult. The Tiergarten district court assumed racist acts.
A Berlin AfD politician has been fined by the Tiergarten district court for assault and insult. The court assumed on Tuesday that the 56-year-old had first racially insulted two women in a café and later hit and bitten one of them. “They wanted to offend her, degrade her,” said the judge.
The local politician Kai Borrmann, a member of the Berlin-Mitte district assembly, had previously admitted that he had attacked the moderator Steph Karl, who is known in the German rap scene, and her girlfriend in 2021.
As the court explained, the accused first interfered in a conversation between the two women in August 2021. Then he racially insulted her. He also used the N-word. The N-word describes a racist term for black people that was used in the past.
still severely impaired in women’s sense of security
When they left the café, he insulted her again on the street and finally attacked her. As the court announced, the bite wound was visible for about a year. Both women are still massively impaired in their sense of security.
The statements used by the man are discriminatory, said the presiding judge. The accused also recognized that he had offended the women. In the case of bodily harm, he could not invoke self-defense because he attacked himself. That’s why he had no right to defend himself against the women’s resistance.
The court imposed a penalty of 180 daily rates of 60 euros each, i.e. a total of 10,800 euros. The public prosecutor’s office and the joint prosecutor had asked for a suspended sentence, while the defense demanded acquittal of the assault. The verdict is not yet legally binding.