A newly published surveillance video on
Monday showed the fatal attack on a young
woman after she defended two teenage girls
from male harassment, a death that has been
mourned with candlelight vigils across Germany.
Daily paper Bild published the video on its
website, calling on witnesses, including the
teenage girls, to come forward with more
information about the attack on the night of 15
November in front of a fast-food restaurant in
Offenbach in central Germany.
Tugce Albayrak died on Friday, her 23rd
birthday, after her family gave doctors
permission to switch off her life support.
She had been in a coma after reportedly being
struck in the head.
Pictures of the pretty woman with long black
hair and dark eyes have been all over television,
social media and newspapers in Germany in the
two weeks since the attack.
After candlelight vigils attracted hundreds of
mourners in Offenbach over the weekend, about
200 people also came together in Berlin on
Sunday to commemorate and pray for the
young woman.
The incident involving the girls is not on the
video, but witnesses reported that Albayrak
stepped in to help after becoming aware of the
distressed girls.
The surveillance video of the attack in which
she is injured shows an enraged man, identified
by Bild as 18-year-old Sanel M who is currently
in police custody who is several times held
back by another young man as he appears to
want to run in the direction of Albayrak.
Because the incident happened at 04:00, it's
dark and many of the people's movements on
the video are hard to identify.
At some point, Sanel M appears to hit Albayrak
on the head, while the other young man is still
trying to protect her and she falls on the ground
and stops moving.
An Offenbach police spokesman said on
Monday that no further witnesses had come
forward since the release of the video.
"We are still hoping that the two teenage girls
will get in touch with us", spokesperson Ingbert
Zacharias told The Associated Press, adding
that an autopsy of Albayrak would be
performed Monday to determine the cause of
death.
Albayrak, a German-Turkish university student
who wanted to become a high school teacher,
has been lauded by many as a hero for
protecting the teenage girls, and more than 130
000 people have signed an online petition
asking the German president to posthumously
award her a medal for her courageous behavior.
"I painfully miss my daughter and her smile",
Tugce's father Ali told Bild. "We hope that her
body will be released [by the authorities] on
Monday, so that we can bury her."

R.I.P. Woman.. Died in the course of duty like a real mother.

As for that boy who dared raise his hand against a woman, better remain in that jail!