https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/world-news/american-tourist-stabbed-while-defending-women-on-german-tram-slams-europes-immigration-problem-after-one-of-the-suspects-is-freed/
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An American tourist who was brutally stabbed while protecting two women on a German tram spoke out against Europe’s “immigration problem” after one of the suspects was released from custody.
John Rudat, a 21-year-old model from upstate New York, eviscerated Europe’s policies in a candid video posted to Instagram just hours after he was attacked.
“If y’all didn’t think that Europe had an immigration problem, especially Germany, let me drop some knowledge on you,” Rudat said, his face still heavily bandaged after the brutal beatdown.
At the time he recorded the video, it was approximately three minutes to midnight — when one of the alleged assailants was set to be released after authorities found no evidence linking him to the knife attack.
Rudat, though, insisted he was being released in part because he wasn’t a citizen of Germany, or the greater European Union.
“He doesn’t even belong in here. He is an immigrant, an illegal one, a drug dealer and very popularly known here, especially by the police,” Rudat claimed.
The impact of citizenship on the detention of immigrants and tourists varies based on various factors, including the person’s country of origin, severity of the charge, and possibility of extradition.
The model claimed that the immigrant had been remanded many times before, including for similar instances of trying to assault young women.
“If they could do this to the people and then just get released 12 hours later, even less at this point, where’s the law? Where’s the structure? If Germans are held to that law and that structure, but these people could just come in, swing knives, and hurt, abuse, terrorize and oppress citizens of Germany then what do we do?” Rudat lamented.
The US embassy in Germany called on local law enforcement.
