The police arrested four suspects after a beating attack on a 17-year-old during a folk high school course in Goch. These are three young men at the age of 19, 21 and 22 years and a 17-year-old adolescent, said the police Kleve. To the motive the investigators made so far no information.
The three young men are said to have stormed into the VHS course on Wednesday evening and specifically targeted the youngster. They beat the 17-year-old with truncheons, the police said. Even when he tried to flee and fell to the ground, the group did not let go of him. One of the perpetrators also injured the victim with a so-called airsoft gun on his back.
The adolescent was able to leave the hospital after outpatient treatment. According to the police, after the attack he discovered that money and a cell phone had been stolen from his jacket.
The other students and a retired teacher had not intervened for fear of the airsoft gun. Some of the students want to have recognized three of the four attackers. They put the investigators on the trail of the arrested suspects, said a police spokesman.