With Mercedes in a group of Kurds: acquittal for "Bernese gunman"

On September 12, 2015, police on Bern's Kirchenfeld Bridge prevented Kurds and sympathizers from reaching the Kurdish counter-demonstration on Helvetiaplatz.

PETER KLAUNZER

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On September 12, 2015, police on Bern’s Kirchenfeld Bridge prevented Kurds and sympathizers from reaching the Kurdish counter-demonstration on Helvetiaplatz.

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The court also acquitted the man of the two other charges, as court president Peter Müller announced on Monday afternoon in the Bern office.

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The incident occurred on the fringes of an approved rally by Turks and an unauthorized counter-rally by Kurds. At that time there was war in northern Iraq between the Turkish army and Kurdish PKK fighters. The waves also went up in Switzerland.

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The Turkish Mercedes driver and a second Turkish motorist first got into a group of Kurds by chance. These violently attacked the car occupants. The now acquitted Turk was seriously injured and bleeding profusely.

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After crawling into the car and driving away from the Kurds, he turned around and drove into the Kurdish group without his glasses and with a badly damaged windshield. Several Kurds were thrown from the car. The video of this incident made the rounds on social media as a “rampage”.

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One Kurd suffered a fractured skull and shoulder, and a second also had a broken shoulder. Other Kurds were injured less severely.

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A Bernese public prosecutor said at the start of the trial last Monday that the man did not have to turn after his escape. If you drive unchecked into a crowd at 30 to 50 kilometers per hour, you will accept serious injuries or even the death of people. She applied for an eight-year prison term.

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With Mercedes in a group of Kurds: acquittal for “Bernese gunman”

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