A few days ago we posted a subtitled video and a translated article about the deliberate and brutal attack on a woman in the Berlin subway by a culture-enricher who kicked her down the stairs. Although the vile deed was done back in October, the story did not become public until this month.

The CCTV footage used in the video had been illegally leaked. Now that the information is out there in the public domain, the Berlin police have decided to… yep, you guessed it: launch an investigation into who leaked the video.

The following clip revisits the incident and very gingerly touches on the issue of whether the police should have acted sooner, and even more gingerly on the possibility that the effort to find the leaker is in fact a waste of scarce police resources.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. WARNING: Once again, this video contains images of a violent, brutal attack, and may be disturbing for sensitive viewers:

Below is an article from the Berliner Morgenpost (also translated by Nash Montana) with more details on the police investigation into the leaking of the video. Readers can decide for themselves whether the video was really going to be officially released the day after it was illegally leaked, and that the timing was just a coincidence:

Police investigation of unknown person who published internal video Someone passed this video to the media, which shows the offender that kicked a woman down the stairs in the subway station. He [the passer of the video] will face consequences. One day before the Berlin Police published the video for the purpose of searching for the offender, the recording appeared in the media. Someone apparently had passed the recording to BILD and BZ (Berliner Zeitung). Who it is that did that is not clear. But what’s certain is: The video at the point of publication had not yet been officially released, and whoever passed it on was doing so illegally. Why the police only now show the video of the subway kicker The Berlin police have now picked up the investigation. Criminal charges against unknown persons have been filed. It cannot be excluded that the video was passed on from someone from the police, a spokeswoman says. The State Office of Criminal Investigations (LKA) is investigating unknown persons for violation of the Data Privacy Act. There are no specific suspects. After the publication of the video, the police immediately received six tips. The video was going to be published anyway, according to the Berlin Police The Berlin Police contradict the general opinion that the official publication of the 20-second video was merely a reaction to its having been passed on to the media prematurely. Accusations to that effect were made on the Facebook site of the Berlin Police. A formal request for the publication of the video for the purpose of a public search for the offenders had “long since been requested by a judge,” the police said. That the video was officially published on that day was because the judge’s decision was handed down at that time.

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