The area around the sports park in Hüttenbrennergasse in Graz is known as a social hotspot and dangerous incidents happen again and again. In February, a gang of young people attacked usher Christian R. because they were being expelled from the sports park. The 55-year-old was seriously injured. Here he tells us how he is doing today.
Christian R. (55) is an usher at the Graz sports park. However, he has been through hell in recent weeks. The leader of a gang of young people with a migrant background who always causes mischief and police operations in the Hüttenbrennergasse, headbutted him so powerfully that his nose broke three times.
How did that happen?
“We noticed these guys for a while because they kept making a fuss. That’s why they were banished from the halls.’ But that didn’t matter to them. In February, the situation escalated: they wanted to watch a basketball game. But the players themselves refused to give the group access due to several incidents.
They did not want to let that go and tried their luck with usher Christian R., who was sitting in his room at the sports park at the time, protected by a glass facade with a speaking function. “One man said he didn’t understand me, I had to come out. “What I did,” says the 55-year-old. He then explained to them again that they had no business being in the hall and looked towards the exit.
Attackers ran away
“As soon as I turned my head back, one of them headbutted me hard in the face. Witnesses helped me immediately and the police also came.” The attackers ran away. After being taken to the hospital, it was discovered that his nose had been broken three times and a nerve had also been affected, causing his facial features to change.
“It is not yet certain whether it will happen again,” says Christian R. In any case, surgery was inevitable. “In addition, I have to wear a mask with an alarm function because of my life-threatening breathing pauses at night. This was not possible four weeks after the operation. That was really intense.”
Christian R. is now back to work. The boys who did this to him have been identified, but the investigation is still ongoing, as police spokesman Fritz Grundnig confirmed in response to a ‘Krone’ request. There are fears that they cannot be prosecuted because of their young age: “One of the five suspects is 14 years old, the others are under 14 years old,” says Grundnig – and therefore they would be of legal age.
Source: Krone
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