They reportedly got into a verbal fight and she is said to have insulted him before the fatal blow got thrown, which a witness later testified in court. The video footage lacks sound so the details could never get solved. The incident was widely reported in German and Turkish media and engendered a national debate in Germany about youth crime and civil courage. According to witnesses, the attack took place after Albayrak had attempted to intervene in a situation between three men who were harassing two teenage girls in the toilets of the McDonald's restaurant.
One of the men later attacked her outside, in the restaurant's parking lot. A surveillance video showing the attack was published online by the Bild newspaper on 1 December. Police say the video had not been cleared for publication and they are investigating how it came to be released. The video shows Albayrak standing among a group of people in the parking lot.
After a few minutes, the attacker enters the image. He is visibly agitated, gesticulating towards the group while being held back on one arm by a friend. The attacker leaves the field of view, and re-appears shortly, now about 20βm from the group. Albayrak is seen leaving the group to confront the attacker. The attacker's friend is now standing immediately between attacker and victim.
The attacker suddenly strikes past his friend, hitting the victim, who falls to the ground immediately. Albayrak sustained severe brain damage and fell into a coma. Doctors pronounced her brain dead on 26 November. In June , he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for manslaughter. The attack and its aftermath were intensely covered by both Turkish and German newspapers. The Turkish-language German paper Sabah Avrupa in its 16 November edition cited one of the victim's friends, who described the incidents in terms of "the Serbs waited for us and insulted us again.
Takvim labelled the photograph "the Serbian butcher". On 27 November, hundreds of people held a vigil outside the restaurant, [ 16 ] followed by a number of vigils across Germany on 29 November, with a total number of attendees in the thousands. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.
