Original Translation from Hermes

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From Die Welt

As the 15 years old student wanted to mediate in a dispute between two classmates, Abdoul B. Attacked him in his back with the scissors.

A 16 year old stabbed and severely injured a classmate during a lesson in the District School “am Hafen”.  The 15 years old victim engaged in a mediation (between two classmates), but then the attacker rammed him with the scissors in his back

The youngster had come to blows with another classmate and had thrown a chair at him. After having commited the aggressions, the 16 years old escaped from the school, but could be detained shortly afterwards in his home in Billstedt. The injured youngster is being treated in a hospital.

The (female) teacher could not stop them

It was not clear why Abdoul B. (16) and his same-age classmate Aresh R. began to quarrel during the German grammar lesson. One was told in the afternoon that it must have been an issue of “minimal importance”.

What is sure is that the quarrel between them escalated. The teacher intervened after a chair flew, but she was unable to control the two students.

What  happened after was explained by the witnesses as follows: Abdoul B. wanted to go again for his opponent, and just as Tunay S. (15) went to intervene in the dispute, he then became the target of violence. Abdoul B. took the scissors and used them to attack the 15 years old in his back, after which the victim fell down, severely injured.

The perpetrator, who till that day had had no affairs with the police, fled using a fire escape. Aresch R. was brought to another room and after a while treated by the emergency doctor before being carried to the hospital. He is not in serious danger.

221 serious incidents per year in the schools of Hamburg

The teacher and the students who witnessed the events had to be treated by the crisis intervention team. Violent incidents happen continuously in the schools of Hamburg. Just in June (a youngster) stabbed another during a football match in the sports field of the School of Foreign Languages at Barmbeker street.

Last school year 221 specially serious incidents were reported in the schools of Hamburg, incidents like sexual assaults or violent/dangerous physical attacks. This means that according to the statistics there was no school day in Hamburg without a serious incident involving aggression.

The names of the schools specially affected by this trend are kept secret by the authorities in order to prevent them from being avoided. The school in Neustädter street (as it is called by the security services) had not been a matter of notice in the past.