Abdulkadir Osman (archive): Menacing presence
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The death threat text message came half an hour before midnight.
Hooded men would come to their apartment in Berlin-Spandau to kill them, Hildegard J. read on her cell phone.
You and your son should be vigilant.
Two days later, on July 28, 2020, the next SMS.
This time to her son.
Now the anonymous writer has announced that mother and son will be killed with a samurai sword.
Just a coincidence that your neighbor, Abdulkadir Osman, had recently received mail from the judiciary?
The district court of Berlin-Tiergarten informed him in writing in July that he would now have to appear in court as a defendant in autumn.
The public prosecutor's office accuses him of stalking, coercion, damage to property and bodily harm.
This Friday the process begins.
Abdulkadir Osman is supposed to make life hell for his neighbors on Falkenhagener Strasse.
According to the prosecution, one of his victims is Hildegard J. The public prosecutor's office does not consider the timing of the threats against her and her son to be a coincidence.
She is now investigating the suspected threat against Osman.
"The investigation is ongoing," said the public prosecutor.
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