And the German government tried to persuade him to keep quiet about it.
More on this attempt to prevent the people of Germany from learning about Muslim crimes can be found here: “German Government ‘tried to cover up Syrian migrant’s attack on Good Samaritan tourist,'” by Oliver Rickwood, GB News, July 27, 2026:
An American tourist who was left disfigured after intervening in an assault on a woman aboard a German tram has claimed the country’s Government tried to cover up his attack.
John Rudat, a 21-year-old model, was slashed with a box cutter when he tried to protect two women from being “assaulted and harassed” in Dresden last August.
The attack left him with a scar stretching from beneath his eye, across his nose and through his upper lip, requiring extensive surgery.
Such facial wounds, and subsequent cicatrization, will make it impossible for John Rudat to continue his career as a model.
The 21-year-old Syrian national who inflicted the life-changing injuries was handed a three-year youth prison sentence, while his accomplice, who also assaulted Mr Rudat, was suspended on probation for a year and eight months.
Speaking exclusively to GB News, Mr Rudat claimed a minister ordered him to “keep quiet” about his ordeal while he was in hospital….
“What everybody was really confused about, including my lawyer when I went over there to testify, was why these grown men were being tried under juvenile law. It doesn’t make sense.”…
Why would the two attackers have been sentenced incorrectly, as John Rudat maintains, as juveniles, and thus given more lenient sentences? It is all part of the German government’s relentless effort to downgrade the seriousness of Muslim crime in the eyes of the public, by having some crimes incorrectly characterized as “committed “by juveniles,” with their sentences being similarly mild. In this case the main attacker was sentenced to only three years in a juvenile facility, while the other Muslim involved was given no jail time, but only 18 months on probation. Considering the violence of their attack, which was in effect an assault with a deadly weapon, these sentences were — are — an outrage.
It remains unclear whether they will be deported.
Why would they not be deported? They are violent criminals; even before their attack on John Rudat, they had been arrested many times for attacking police officers, and for drug trafficking. What is the likelihood that they will ever be productive and well-integrated members of German society? And what is the likelihood that they will revert to lives of violent crime? The people of Germany need not endure their presence.
Both defendants expressed remorse and apologised for their actions, claiming they had been drunk at the time of the attack.
Yes, of course, drunk people so often to take out their box cutters — doesn’t everyone carry them? — in order to slice up the face of anyone who gets in their way. These were two ordinarily peaceful Muslims; please don’t bring up their many previous convictions for attacking the police and for drug trafficking. It will only confuse people.
Clearly, John Rudat is both a Good Samaritan and a hero, who went immediately into action to prevent two men from attacking two women on a train in Dresden. He was horrified at the German government’s attempt to have him keep quiet about the attack by two Muslims; he may not have understood that such an attempt was part of that government’s deliberate attempt to limit popular alarm over Germany’s burgeoning Muslim population, and what that Muslim presence means both for Germany’s economic wellbeing and for its soaring crime rate.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Since an American citizen is involved here, the US should come down hard on the Merz regime for trying to pressurize Mr Rudat to try and gloss over this. Maybe State Department should issue an advisory to Americans travelling to Germany, and indeed, to the rest of Europe and Britain, in the same way they warn them if they’re travelling to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Libya or other such places
somehistory says
This is evil. Treating adults as if they are little kids playing with peashooters.
A six year old autistic child in GA USA, was suspended from school for eating his sandwich into the shape of a gun. He was also suspended on another occasion for drawing a pilgrim shooting a turkey.
Germany should lose all of its tourism for the injustice in this case. The American should sue. Whatever means he has legally to inflict some injury of his own, he should use.
Shirley Rosenhohn says
I woudn’t be surprised if leftwing “activists” find the “punishments”(????) given to the scumbags were too harsh. Maybe they think that sending them to bed without dessert and no computer games for a week would be harsh enough…
Earthling says
It is not possible to judge these savages from Western civilized, German eyes. Unless you spend time in their Book, Hadith, Charters, you cannot imagine the world through their eyes! I still remember when I read about hell in the Quran 21 years ago and realized what a true demon alláh is, my whole view of the world flipped on its head. Mind you, my goal in studying, was to defend islam!! Few want to undertake that work, and fewer believe those who do!!
Princess says
21 years ago I saw the suicide bombings, the ramming attacks and the knife attacks that were happening all the time in the Middle East and didn’t have to put two and two together. I knew what would happen if Europe was flooded with people with the same culture and traditions. I didn’t need to study the Quran to enlighten or refute myself.
Princess says
Many years ago in Germany I saw a person committing a crime. As he fled the scene on a busy street, I ran after him, putting myself in danger of being hit by a car. I tried to flag down a passing police car. The two police officers in the car waved at me as if I was waving hello to them and continued driving. I felt like an idiot.
tgusa says
Johns first mistake was being in Germany. He learned a lesson he will remember every time he looks in the mirror.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Or anywhere in Europe. Dear fellow Americans, if you do have to travel abroad, look westwards – across the Atlantic, not Pacific. Various Pacific islands, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines,….
somehistory says
The West is the Pacific….East is the Atlantic.
tgusa says
“And the German government tried to persuade him to keep quiet about it.”
Attention German government, Americans are not that easy to keep quiet.
KK says
I hope the model had a international attorney who sues the German authority who tried to silence him and go after the judge for misuse of the law.