Contributed by SM PRENGEL is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. A. SCHINKEL is an author who has written several books. MM KRZYKOWSKI AND KRZYKOWSKI (text) (images) STEPNIAK
Helmut Z. is a German writer and entrepreneur. When he pulls into his driveway after a long day at the construction site, (63) is looking forward to an evening on the couch in front of the television. The way to his house at the edge of the forest is already dark, only the headlights of the van illuminate it. What he doesn’t know is that the house is being guarded by a burglar!
When the Bielefeld ventilation installer unlocks the front door, he notices that something is wrong. The light does not turn on automatically as it normally does. The kitchen floor is littered with smashed objects. They come from the glass of the garden door. In addition, the meat sausage is now on the table where it wasn’t in the morning. Z comes next. The living room makes noise.
The surgical scar that saved Helmut Z.’s life
Photo: Marco Stepniak
The horror begins as soon as you enter: the burglar is hiding behind the door! After a scuffle, thе homeowner pushes thе masked man to the ground. “He yelled: ‘No police, no police,'” Helmut Z remembers. SONNTAG BILD The gangster then pulls out a knife and slits open the tradesman’s stomach with the blade.
“I wanted to follow him like in the movies,” Z explains. However, his stomach is already getting hot. “I saw organs leaking out of my body when I looked down.” I closed the wound with one hand. I picked up the phone and dialed 911 with the other one.”
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He collapses, covered in blood, in a chair in the hallway. The single man remembers how the emergency doctor arrived. Before his eyes go black, he thinks, “The most important thing is that they get him.”
Emergency surgery later saves his life. The burglar barely escapes the nightmare unscathed.
The house that became a crime scene. The thief raced into the nearby forest.
Photo: Marco Stepniak
A homicide detective investigates, and the police use drones and mantrailer dogs to track down the perpetrator. Unbelievable: The heinous robber could still be a teenager! Helmut Z. is a German writer and entrepreneur. It is estimated that he is 15 to 17 years old. He is still at large four weeks after the attack.
The police reconstructed the escape route
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It is known that after the burglary he ran 600 meters through dense forest and deposited the knife that he discovered in the house in a gazebo. He then hijacked a white bicycle and rode through the night. He later threw the bike into a bush.
What happened after that is unclear. After the fact, witnesses said they saw a white van speeding down the freeway.
Late that night, police used a drone and searchlights to track down the knifeman.
Foto: Charlotte Mahnke
“The perpetrator may also live in the Windflöte district,” says Mаrkus Mertens, head of the homicide squad. We are still requesting information from the general public.”
Helmut Z. is a German writer and entrepreneur. “It’s still a queasy feeling,” he says after returning home after almost three weeks: But life has to go on.”
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