Police officer bitten by drunk: police foundation denounces social brutality
Created: 08/22/2022, 09:11
By: Andreas Sachse
During an operation, a woman bit the thigh of a police officer.
(symbol photo) © DPA / Frido Gentsch
A drunk bit a police officer in the leg last year, causing nerve damage.
A police foundation made the incident public and denounced the brutalization of society.
Oberschleißheim
– A painful bite in the thigh has banished a police officer to sick leave for a long time.
No dog was responsible for the pain suffered, an obviously drunk woman bit so hard that the officer suffered permanent nerve damage.
For the police union, the incident is representative of a series of attacks on paramedics, firefighters and the police.
The police unionist and parliamentary group leader of the CSU in the Garching city council, Jürgen Ascherl, published the process on Facebook under the title "Worse than a pit bull".
The woman had already attacked the officers of the PI 48 from Oberschleißheim last September during an operation because of a domestic dispute in Garching.
Ascherl, who presented the injured officer with a check from the Bavarian Police Foundation, says he has noticed that the social climate has been brutalized for several years.
"I'm not a sociologist," says the deputy chairman of the foundation located in Bavaria's Ministry of the Interior.
Victims of these conditions, the loss of respect for authorities, are all too often uniform wearers.
Aid and rescue workers who strive every day to help people in need.
Unemployed for several months
During the operation in Garching, the woman, who was drunk and drugged, tried to run away after an argument with her partner in the car.
The officers prevented that. During a subsequent scuffle, she bit the inside of the right thigh of one of the officers.
It took several minutes for the officer to free himself.
Nerve damage was diagnosed in the hospital, which bothered the police officer until December.
He was on sick leave for a long period of time.
The Police Foundation, founded by a Nuremberg businessman in the 1970s, has set itself the task of assisting police officers who were victims of crime.
The situation has deteriorated noticeably since the founding years.
"Meanwhile I have to hand over a check almost every month," says Ascherl, describing the social change he has highlighted: "Politics have failed!" Much earlier this clearly recognizable development should have been counteracted.
The amount of money awarded depends on the degree of injury sustained.
Stay in holiday homes
Ascherl, who worked in several Munich offices before moving to the foundation, also refers to the case of the 26-year-old police officer from Ismaning.
When an apparently mentally ill man (38) snatched the pistol from his colleague at Unterföhring station in June 2017, one of the shots he fired hit the young woman in the head.
According to Ascherl, she has been in a coma ever since.
In such particularly difficult cases, the foundation sometimes supports the family “with a few hundred thousand euros”.
The money comes from donations.
Ascherl thinks it is important to set an example, to let the victims and their families know that they are not alone.
The officer injured by a biting woman from Garching was also offered a free stay in the police foundation's holiday homes.
As Ascherl reports, the official accepts the invitation "very gladly".
More news from Oberschleißheim and the district of Munich can be found here.