Thank you Oz-Rita for the translation
There are many articles on this event however only one of them, Focus.De, bothers to mention that he is a Libyan national and therefore most likely a Muslim. Muslims of course believe that a woman showing her hair is a crime under the sharia and are raised to think anyone who does this is an evil temptress This applies to both Shiia and Sunni schools of sharia as we see the same laws on women’s hair covering in Saudi Arabia as we do in Iran.
The relevant part of the Focus article:
The police had searched for the offender with pictures taken from surveillance video. In February of 2015 the man, who originally comes from Lybia, was arrested, but then he was released again. However since October, he has been in confinement. He is facing charges of multiple shop liftings – the 29 year old has confessed to three of these charges against him. The court is now imposing a concurrent sentence.
The original video about the first incident is below:
Bild would not allow me to upload a subtitled version. So the translation with times are below
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Bild Bluelight
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Mara Z. (18, name changed) School had let out a little early.
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I met with a few friends, and then wanted
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to join my mother to help her. I took the U-9
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from “Zoo” in the direction of “Steglitz”
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I had my earphones in.
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Then I felt how someone came too close to me,
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and I turned away slightly.
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What I can remember is that my back became very hot
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and my head also, and then
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people shouting: “Your hair is burning!”.
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Then I tried to extinguish the fire with the sleeves
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of my cardigan, and I saw this man
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just vaguely from the side and also the lighter
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in his hand. But he continued to walk quite normally.
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I think perhaps because he is somehow sick, because I don’t
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know the man, I had no contact with him whatsoever
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and cannot explain it at all. The video shows a young man
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at the U-station “Zoologischer Garten”, who sets fire to the hair of a 17-year-old girl.
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Do you know his motive? Why did he do it?
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We assume that there is no motive; the motive aspect
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is completely unclear. It may be that the perpetrator was under the influence of drugs,
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or is mentally somewhat unstable. We do not have any explanation for this act at the moment.
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Why do you assume that he was not quite normal
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or was under the influence of drugs? His appearance is extremely calm;
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he seems to be absolutely unconcerned by the event, and he
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approaches the place of the event and leaves with absolute calm.
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What is the status of the investigation so far? We have no indications as to the perpetrator.
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Unfortunately we do not have any eyewitnesses so far
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who were there on the day.
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We hope following this program
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people come forwards who have experienced something similar,
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or who can give us information about the perpetrator or the act.
This is the culture that we are suppose to accept as equal to ours!