Gedenktafel für Jonny K. – Memorial Plaque for Jonny K.

I dedicate this review to every victim of cruel and mindless, inhuman and unimaginable violence in public areas. No words can console relatives and friends, but we should never hesitate to send out clear signals. Clear signals to show how repulsive any acts of violence are!
Crime scene: Alexanderplatz … as a grey and faceless transport hub, this place has never appealed to me much. Since October 2012, it has turned into the only place in Berlin I successfully avoid. I only come here to light candles for Jonny … right where he got physically assaulted.
I will not go into details here. It will not change the past. Not the progression of events, not the conviction of the perpetrators and the sentences the court thought would be appropriate. But we should think about the future and always remember Jonny K., a brave young man who died after trying to help his friend. Trying to prevent an act of violence … becoming a victim of violence himself … one day later he died and his family decided to make a plaster cast of his right hand.
Tina, his older sister, was able to assert herself in a remarkable way and managed to have a memorial plaque placed at the scene of the crime. Very touching to see his hand lying on the ground … sending shivers down my spine. Like his hand is calling: Stop kicking, stop beating once the victim is lying helplessly on the ground no longer defending themselves!!!
«My little brother has got a fixed place at last!» … this is what Tina said on the day the memorial plaque got uncovered on the 1^st anniversary of her brother´s death in 2013.
5 visible stars and a myriad of invisible ones for a memorial place reminding us to show courage … any time!
I only wish that fixed place would not be in the streets of Berlin, but in a better place!
RIP Jonny! All the best to you, Tina, and your whole family!
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