“Knife crime” is in the news a lot lately — as if those evil knives just wandered around on their own, killing and wounding people. Strangely enough, there seems to be a correlation between knife activity and cultural enrichment in France, Germany, Britain, and other parts of Western Europe. I wonder why that is…?
This weekend it was Berlin’s turn to get a visit from those peregrine knives. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius:
Perpetrator on the run! Knife death in the middle of Berlin
Knife death in the middle of Berlin!
A bloody act of violence took place on Berlin’s Uhlandstrasse on Sunday afternoon, in which a man was killed. According to NIUS’ information from the crime scene, the victim is said to be a 26-year-old who was apparently killed with a bladed weapon. The perpetrator is therefore still on the run. More precise circumstances about the course of events, perpetrator, or victim are not yet known.
The police confirmed to NIUS that a person was found with fatal injuries on Sunday afternoon and that they suspect a homicide. The fourth homicide squad has taken over the investigation.
Second knife death in two days
A fatal knife attack took place in Berlin on Saturday: According to the public prosecutor’s office’s findings, a 26-year-old was attacked by a group of people on the platform of the U8 “Kottbusser Tor” stop and fatally injured. Here too, the authorities assume that this was a homicide — the fourth homicide commission is also investigating. Witnesses found a lifeless person on an intermediate deck of the subway station.
Afterword from the translator:
Journalistic language is to me quite often extremely stupid. Seriously, a knife doesn’t attack anyone, or kill for that matter; after all, it’s an inanimate object that can be used by a person to attack and to cause death with. But on its OWN? But this type of language is as stupid as the government’s attempts, by declaring “weapons-free zones”, to curb violent crimes involving weapons, as if terrorists and violent criminals would adhere to this specific by-law, but happily flout all the others. I seriously wish they would speak clearly instead of mudding the “literary” waters to make it easier for the government to disarm the law-abiding.