August 2020, a video call via WhatsApp.
The man has put many kilometers between himself and his old life, he speaks from abroad.
Not only is it far away, years have passed.
Time that supposedly heals all wounds.
Not a wound.
He left Berlin in 2012.
Nevertheless, he is now sitting in his apartment, in his new life, and remembers exactly what happened to him 13 years ago in Berlin - if you can believe his affidavit.
Or other men telling similar stories.
Not the other side who denies all of this, which is why it is better to write "presumably happened".
Preferably in capital letters so that nobody misses it.
But more on that later.
The man on the phone was in his twenties, he was homosexual, he was a patient in a well-known doctor's office for gays in Berlin.
In the middle of the Schöneberg Regenbogenkiez, where men meet in "Romeo and Romeo" and fetish shops sell "everything" that serves the play instinct.
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