Robbery attack in Friedrichshain: drivers threatened with a knife!

Robbery attack in Friedrichshain: drivers threatened with a knife!

Friedrichstraße, 10243 Berlin, Deutschland - On June 8, 2025, the Berlin police were called for a predatory attack on a driver in Friedrichshain around 10:50 p.m. A 33-year-old driver had picked up a passenger on Friedrichstrasse when it appeared inconspicuously at the beginning. However, the passenger quickly asked a explosive question: whether the interior of the car was monitored with a camera, which the driver denied. Shortly thereafter, the driver heard the sound of a hip -up knife, which made him break off and flee the car.

The passenger who held the knife in his hand followed the driver and demanded the release of cash and the belly pocket. Witnesses of the incident immediately alerted the police, while the attacker finally broke off the persecution and fled towards the Büschingstrasse tram stop. A specialist commissioner of Police Directorate 5 has now taken over the investigation to get to the bottom of the incident. This is not the first incident of this kind in the region.

rising knife attacks in Berlin

The Berlin police published the data for 2022 as part of its annual crime statistics, which have a worrying increase in 3,482 knife attacks. This number represents an increase of five percent compared to the previous year. As with this current incident, violence with knives is increasingly an issue of public security in the capital.

A particularly serious attack only occurred on October 26, 2023, when a 43-year-old man in Friedrichshain was attacked by two unknown perpetrators with a knife. The victim suffered a belly injury and had to be taken to the hospital. Here, too, a specialist commissioner of the police department 5 took over the investigation, but the motif of the attackers remained unclear. Such acts of violence raise questions about security in public space and illustrate the challenges with which the police authorities are faced with.

crime and statistics in Berlin

Police crime statistics (PKS) serves as an important basis for observing and analyzing crime in Berlin. It represents a comprehensive compilation of all criminal facts that have become known to the police and provides knowledge that are essential for the fight against crime and criminal policy decisions. Nevertheless, the informative value of the PKS is limited because not all the police committed are known to the police. The number of unreported cases depends largely on the advertisement of the population.

The incidents mentioned and the increasing knife attacks open up important dialogues on public security and the reaction of the security forces in Berlin. Measures to improve security in the affected districts continue to be discussed to protect the citizens and reduce violence.

For more information on the incidents and the crime statistics, please visit the pages of the Berlin , Berlin Live and police Crime statistics .