Overview

• The attack occurred around 22:20 Friday in a bar on Auguste-Viktoria-Allee in Berlin-Reinickendorf.
• Police say the 52-year-old had stepped in to mediate a dispute between the host and patrons before he was attacked.
• An unidentified man entered the pub, seized the mediator, and choked him until he lost consciousness.
• The victim's wife intervened, the attacker fled, and rescuers took the man to hospital with a fractured larynx for inpatient care.
• The Fachkommissariat of Polizeidirektion 1 (Nord) is leading the investigation, and police statistics describe the area as one of Reinickendorf's more dangerous sectors.