The appointment at the Münster district court, to which Nuradi A. was handcuffed late on Saturday morning, did not last long, then the judge ordered the 20-year-old Russian citizen to be held in custody for bodily harm resulting in death.
A. is said to have insulted several women as “lesbian whores” at the Christopher Street Day (CSD) event in Münster on the Saturday before last, called them “piss off” and then approached them threateningly.
When Malte C. wanted to intervene to protect him, A. suddenly hit him so brutally in the face that C. lost consciousness and hit the asphalt.
For days, doctors in the intensive care unit fought for the life of 25-year-old Malte C., who described himself as a trans man.
Alleged perpetrator seen on videos
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Several video and photo recordings from the crime scene suggest that the rejected asylum seeker Nuradi A. was the uninhibited thug.
In addition to the urgent suspicion, the judge also saw the reason for the arrest as a risk of escape and repetition.
As "Bild" reported, the police file of the alleged perpetrator, who has lived with his mother in Germany for eight years and trained as a warehouse worker after graduating from secondary school, is said to be long.
A. is said to have been noticed not only several times for drug offenses, but also for bodily harm and has therefore already been sentenced to a juvenile detention.
The young man's application for asylum - who was German junior boxing champion in 2017 - has been rejected,
Shortly after the brutal attack, the Münster police headquarters set up a special commission that evaluated various witnesses and, above all, extensive image and video material that several CSD participants had made of the incident.
On some recordings, the face of the thug can apparently be seen so well that an investigator from the special commission was able to identify and arrest the suspect on Friday afternoon at Münster A. main station.
At a memorial event for Malte C., to which several queer associations had called, up to 6,500 people gathered on Friday evening on the Prinzipalmark in Münster.
Mayor Markus Lewe (CDU) also took part in the rally.
The young man's death shook him deeply, said Lewe.
"This attack on a queer person is horrific.
He concerns us all.
Our urban society is cosmopolitan and tolerant and will continue to fight to be a safe place for marginalized people.” But the cruel event shows that it is still necessary to work more for equality and acceptance of people of different sexual orientations.