Prime minister Daniel Günther (CDU) Has awarded eight women and men with the rescue medal on the ribbon, who had stood in the way of the attacker in January 2023 during the knife attack in Brokstedt (Steinburg district). “In recent years, people in our country have hardly shaken and aggravated as the knife attack by Brokstedt,” said Günther.
“In addition to the horror and dismissal, in addition to grief and anger, there is a different feeling in memory of this terrible and incomprehensible act: gratitude and admiration that there are people like them. Who are on hand, solidarity, solidarity, brave and selfless and do the right one, »said the Prime Minister to the excellent. “And I am sure that the experience of the noticeable cohesion of the people in Brokstedt and in the region will continue to belong to our collective memory.”
District court sentenced perpetrators to life imprisonment
On January 25, 2023, the knife attack in a regional train on the way from Kiel to Hamburg, in which two young people were killed. By intervening, the honored other fatalities prevented them by defending the attacker, disarming and held in chess, as well as brought injuries to safety and provided first aid.
The perpetrator was sentenced to a lifelong prison sentence. Legally, the crime is concluded, according to Günther, but for those who were bereavected and for everyone who was sitting on the train at the time, this would probably never be the case. «They faced the armed attacker. They saw the injured people with their fear and panic and took them by the hand, »said the Prime Minister. «We know how selfless and brave you have intervened in a situation that is highly dangerous and partly life -threatening. I am for you and we as a community are very grateful to you. »
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