The trial of a 28-year-old man who was caught on CCTV kicking a young woman down the stairs of a Berlin metro station starts on Thursday. On the grainy CCTV footage, a man could be seen walking up behind an unsuspecting woman, and kicking her violently down the stairs of Hermanstrasse U-Bahn station. But after weeks without an arrest, they took the unusual decision to make video footage of the attack public. Prosecutors say that the attack “had the potential to endanger her life.”The defendant faces a further charge of public exhibitionism. Prosecutors allege that he masturbated in front of two women in the middle of the day in the Reinickendorf neighbourhood of Berlin two weeks before the violent assault.

Source: The Local June 15, 2017 08:26 UTC