Blick
October 9, 2014
For the first time Rachel K is back where she was brutally attacked. “Now everything is coming back,” says the clerk and industrial engineering student. Stunned, she holds her hand over her mouth. “I’m so glad I’m still alive.”
The attack happened on the night of last Monday as Rachel K. travelled by train from a business event in Zurich to Aarau.
“At the station there was, as always, comic characters,” she says. “I therefore only used the illuminated trails.” Through the Old Town to the Chain Bridge all goes well. “There, I had the feeling that someone is following me,” says the young woman. “I looked back and saw a figure with a black hood.” After the bridge, Rachel K. switched onto the left side of the road. The figure followed.
Rachel K. re-entered the side of the road, crossed the roundabout and the pedestrian crossing. It is almost home. Suddenly there is a black man standing before her. “He asked me in English if I speak English. I replied in German that I speak German. ”
She wanted to continue but was not comfortable. “I was about to call someone with the phone. Suddenly the type tried to rip it out of my hand and struck me with the flat of his hand right in the face! Her glasses fell to the ground as they struggled. The man struck her four, five times in the face and bit her in the hand!
The perpetrator said “You are a sexy woman”.
He pulled her hair, pushed her to the ground and said she was a sexy woman. “I was stunned, I did not even scream. I thought of him beating me unconscious, raping me, pulling out a knife! “The culprit was right there above her, but suddenly a car was coming. “He was startled by the light and looked like an animal that is disturbed while eating – and he fled.”
Rachel K. grabbed her glasses and bag and ran off, almost crashing the next car before falling on the bonnet. When the driver sees her bloody lower lip, they both go and call the Canton Police Department. It is 1.07 am. Shortly thereafter, the perpetrator is arrested in the Old Town: It is an Eritreans (24) from an asylum center.
Rachel K. has suffered abrasions and bruises and her father had to go to the hospital. “I think it’s bad that it is no longer safe at night for you to go home at night. My greatest fear is that the offender is released back soon!” But he will be sitting in custody for at least three months.