Knife assault on the practice: “Then he bitten my nose”-the survivor talks about Brokstedt attacker | EUROtoday

The 23-year-old Felix Gerike stopped the knife attacker in January 2023, who killed two younger individuals in a regional practice close to Brokstedt. He remembers the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” (FAS) this Wednesday night when he obtained on the practice after working in Neumünster-and months later he acquired the rescue medal on the ribbon of the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

On January 25, 2023, the knife assault in a regional practice on the best way from Kiel to Hamburg. The Palestinian Ibrahim A. killed two younger individuals: 17-year-old Ann-Marie and her 19 12 months previous good friend Danny. Four different passengers have been critically injured. A lady who was injured within the assault later took his personal life. A. was sentenced to a lifelong jail sentence.

Just a few weeks in the past, eight ladies and men have been awarded the rescue medal on the ribbon. By intervening, the honored different fatalities prevented them by defending the attacker, disarming and held in chess, in addition to introduced accidents to security and supplied first help. One of them is Felix Gerike.

Then he noticed the knife

Gerike experiences that he – 21 years previous and trainee at a big German electronics group – noticed a closely bleeding lady on the platform throughout an extended cease in Brokstedt. He obtained out, put a bundle in hand with a bundle and obtained on again-then he determined to search for a primary help field. “Then I went through the train,” remembers Gerike, “determined by one or two wagons.” When he noticed a bigger quantity of blood on the ground, he suspected that the girl had fallen there. In entrance of him there was a person together with his again to him. Gerike stated him: “Can I help?” Or: “Is everything okay?” The man turned, Gerike noticed the knife within the hand of the attacker. “And then everything was clear.”

The man with the knife has rushed in the direction of him. Gerike gave approach again, known as for assist and raised arms to guard himself. Then, “out of any instinct”, he reached for the arms of the aggressor – after which has a movie tear.

He can not keep in mind the struggle. When his reminiscence continues, he was positioned just a few meters additional on the ground, the perpetrator was mendacity on him. He saved the husband’s wrists below management. “Then he bitten my nose,” says Gerike. The attacker will need to have misplaced the knife in fight. A fellow traveler threw it into the following trash can. Someone threw a suitcase and a briefcase for the perpetrator. The practice door opened, the attacker needed to go away, Gerike let go, others surrounded the now unarmed man on the platform. The hazard was banned.

“I don’t know if you want to be the hero in such a story”

Gerike suffered a number of accidents within the struggle. This features a bone -deep brow wound and a 5 to 6 centimeter deep stab damage within the hip. In addition, a lot of smaller cuts on the pinnacle. In retrospect, he says that he was fortunate: that he had not prompted any everlasting injury. And that the attacker needed to flip round earlier than he began as a result of he gave him time to react. “I don’t know if you want to be the hero in such a story,” says Gerike. “It’s not a film.”

“If I had been attacked first, I wouldn’t have had a chance,” says Gerike. He did not even want ache relievers. Every week after the assault, he went again to coaching. “I just wanted to live on normally,” says Gerike. As quickly because the threads have been pulled, he did sports activities once more. A psychologist launched him after just a few classes that he was heading in the right direction. He additionally drives practice as at all times.

According to “FAS”, Gerike stays liberal on migration coverage questions: “It is no solution to say that we have to close our limits or send everyone out.” If somebody arbitrarily attacked individuals unknown to him, the cultural background does not matter. “I don’t think that such a person is well received somewhere in the world,” says Gerike. However, he was aggravated that no teachings had been drawn from the assault. Younger deeds comparable to in Aschaffenburg, the place a 28-year-old Afghan killed a person and a baby, confirmed that it was nonetheless having to work with the collaboration of the authorities.