Overview

• The indictment alleges the accused spotted an intoxicated 62-year-old in a Britz supermarket, followed him, and stole his mobile phone and a bag containing his wallet.
• Prosecutors contend he pushed the man down the canal’s steep bank to prevent later identification and accepted the likelihood of a fatal outcome.
• Witnesses observed the fall into the Teltowkanal, rescuers retrieved the victim alive, and he later died at a hospital.
• Police identified the suspect via the stolen phone, arrested him the next day—reportedly at a snack stand on Hermannstraße—and he remains in pretrial detention.
• The charges include murder motivated by greed and to conceal the offense, as well as robbery resulting in death.