As of: March 25, 2024, 5:21 p.m
By: Isabel Winklbauer
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Aissam D. on the way to the dock.
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One wrong step and two lives are destroyed: This is what happened to two men who accidentally clashed after a night of partying.
One of them is now almost blind because of it.
Munich – “I used to have good eyesight,” says Andy M. (name changed) quietly, “they compensated for my bad hearing.” But now the 31-year-old Munich delicatessen restaurateur has to make do with almost no eyesight: in a fight In the Milchbar discotheque, Aissam D. rammed his beer glass into his face twice.
Andy M. had stepped on the foot of the Moroccan merchant from Hesse and, instead of apologizing to him, had given him a headbutt.
Then the tourist freaked out.
The trial against Aissam D. (42) for serious bodily harm began in the district court on Monday.
Milk bar brawl with dramatic consequences: eye completely destroyed by broken glass
During the trial, the image emerged of two men, neither of whom had previously attracted attention for violence - but who were so high on the morning of April 30, 2023 that they lost control.
Aissam D. and his friend from Schwabing, an architect, had bottles of wine, beer and long drinks behind them on the occasion of a new business partnership, and D. had also done a gram of coke.
Andy M., on the other hand, is a cannabis patient due to post-traumatic stress disorder and therefore consumes it daily. That day he also drank beer, whiskey-cola and Jägermeister with a friend.
Stepping on someone's foot is not unusual.
But the collision with D., who was also heavily intoxicated, and his own somewhat too bold reaction cost Andy M. his left eye.
It was completely destroyed by a piece of glass.
The vision in his right eye was also almost completely destroyed by the beer glass.
Andy M. two months after the attack in the milk bar.
M. can only see in dim light; daylight blinds him and causes him unbearable pain.
“Please turn off the lights,” his lawyer David Mühlberger asked Judge Lacherbauer after a good hour in the courtroom.
M. suffers from constant headaches, hypersensitivity to light, and can no longer work at deli counters or in brightly lit fruit departments.
His medication costs him at least 800 euros a month, and since the incident he has needed 100 grams of cannabis a month instead of 20.
He lives alone but finds it difficult to look after himself.
But the family is not rich.
Sister calls for fundraiser: high costs after attack
His sister Bianca A. (28) has therefore created an Instagram profile for her brother (@lost.myeye), which calls for a fundraiser.
She wants to collect 10,000 euros just to pay the most necessary expenses that the attack has caused so far.
“With the profile I also want to show what serious consequences alcohol and drug consumption can have,” she says.
Bianca A. is collecting donations for her brother via “Gofundme”.
© Isabel Winklbauer
Aissam D. indirectly confessed to the crime by extensively apologizing to B..
“I’m very sorry for how this ended,” he said.
“I will do everything I can to help and somehow make the situation bearable.
Also in monetary terms." About 30,000 euros have already flowed to Andy M. through the perpetrator-victim compensation, said D's lawyer Sebastian Wagner, and there is a willingness to pay more. Under civil law, a pension for M. might also be possible .
According to criminal law, Aissam D. now faces up to four years in prison.
Which would be moderate, because the public prosecutor's office had initially referred the case to the regional court and was therefore aiming for a sentence of more than four years.
But the court sent the case back to the district court.
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