A few seconds that were enough to destroy the life of a family. An inconceivable assassination attempt out of nowhere.
The victim’s name is Regina G. (58 years old). Today, her son is collecting donations to give his mother the best possible treatment and restore some normalcy.
Flashback: It is September 4, 2021, around 1:30 p.m. Regina G. volunteers to tend the flower beds on a quiet residential street in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf.
Suddenly, Abdul Malik A. (29) attacks her from behind, stabs her repeatedly in the neck with a knife.
The Afghan refugee injures the amateur gardener so badly that the doctors have to put her in a coma.
The diagnosis is shocking: the attack irreparably destroyed the main artery that supplies blood to the left side of the brain. She suffers a severe cerebral infarction, which results in the paralysis of most of the left side of the brain.
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Regina G. loses the ability to speak and is paralyzed on one side.
When the police took Abdul Malik H. away, he told an officer he had “sent Regina G. to heaven. Women are not supposed to work”.
For years, she cared for neglected green spaces in Berlin. And for 20 years, she helped refugees learn German, then study and work in Germany.
Regina G. is in a neuro-rehabilitation clinic, where she is learning to sit, stand, walk, eat and talk. The only word this once-joyful woman can bring to her lips right now is “beautiful…beautiful”, according to her son. But highly specialized therapies are expensive, health insurance only pays for basic therapies.
Sources: Bild, FDS
