Overview

• A 45-year-old transgender person was attacked on Schöneberg’s Motzstraße late Saturday after enduring transphobic insults.
• The assailant used a glass bottle to strike the victim’s companion, inflicting a lip wound and facial hematoma.
• Police officers later spotted a suspect hiding behind a portable toilet but lost them as they climbed over a wall.
• Both the transgender victim and the injured companion had left the scene before officers arrived and the companion’s injuries were deemed non-life-threatening.
• The Berliner Polizeiliche Staatsschutz has taken over the investigation and no arrests have been made in the alleged hate-motivated attack.