Bayreuth: local politician describes brutal racist attack on the doorstep

Brutal attack on Bayreuth local politicians: As reported by the police, there was a 49-year-old local politician on Friday around 2.45 p.m. in Badstrasse in Bayreuthwhen a stranger spoke to him and several racial slurs pronounced. Shortly thereafter, the stranger gave the politician another one Headbutt in the face and injured him. The 49-year-old had to medically provided will.

It’s about the 49-year-old SPD City Councilor Halil Tasdelenlike himself and his brother who Member of Parliament Arif Tasdelen (SPD), initially announced on Twitter. The police did not confirm the name of the attacked. However, she announced on Saturday that he had suffered injuries to his face. Opposite to inFranken.de Tasdelen describes the incredible attack – and tells how he is doing now.

On his birthday: SPD city councilor Tasdelen is attacked in front of his house

“Yesterday was mine Birthday, I turned 49 years old. There was supposed to be coffee and cake later, but nothing came of it“Said the SPD politician. He was with one Colleagues stood about 15 meters from his front door on Friday afternoonas a Mann, who was standing across the street with two women, started calling out to him. “He has asked: What are you looking at??”, says Tasdelen. “I then asked what the whole thing was about, I didn’t look at him, but chatted with my colleague.”

Then be the man suddenly ran towards him across the street. “I then said to him that we are living in the 21st century and that we should be able to talk to each other rationally. He then started insulting me badly, has me ‘Shit, shit Turk, shit foreigner’ designated.” Then the man gave him one brutal headbutt missed and be over one Entrance and the fence of a residential building initially disappeared.

“Mein Neighbor observed the situation the Perpetrator also lost a soda canwhich is why the police were ultimately able to identify and catch him,” says Tasdelen. According to the report, the police immediately followed search measures a, which showed success in the night: After extensive witness interviews and further, intensive investigations, the police 35-year-olds from Bayreuth identified and arrested that night. An acquaintance of the perpetrator who was present shortly before the incident was one right-wing resident of the area, so Tasdelen.

“If he had had a knife”: Bayreuth’s local politicians are tormented by thoughts after the attack

His medical diagnosis: Double broken nosethe 49-year-old had to treated in the clinic after the brutal attack will. “Today the eye is slowly turning blue, the nose is still dripping, the tube has been removed, but the Bloodstains are still there“, Tasdelen told inFranken.de. But the processing is still difficult for him, that becomes clear in the conversation.

“I barely slept last night, was like dizzy when I woke up and thought I had everything just dreamed”, according to the local politician. But when he looked in the mirror, he realized: “That’s me. It was like a bad Hollywood movie and I’m the main actor.” He never thought that something like this would happen to him in the current time, says Tasdelen. But the bloodstains in front of his house would show him the reality painfully.

“The worst thing is the thought: If the one Had knives, I’d be gone now“, says Tasdelen. The walk out of the front door this morning triggered a queasy feeling. “You suddenly look around to see if someone is behind you.” His brother Arif also told the media, he and his brother felt threatened. He hopes the police will investigate the case consistently and that too Take a closer look at the environment.

Much solidarity for Halil Tasdelen after racist attack – Esken: “stand by your side”

There was on Twitter numerous expressions of solidarity for Tasdelen. So wrote the SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken: “We stand by your sidewe stand against #racism!”. The Greens politician and Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir wrote that he hoped “the perpetrator(s) will be caught and punished quickly”.

The Bavarian SPD was shocked by the attack. The state executive condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms and understands it as attack on us all”.

The party stands “on the side of those affected by Racism and right-wing extremist violence, today and every day”. Racism doesn’t just start with violence: “It starts in everyday life and we have to stand up to it.”

with dpa

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