At a rail station in southwest Germany, more than 60 miles south of Frankfurt, an American lady is charged with fatally stabbing a man.
The Kaiserslautern Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on Monday that the event happened on the afternoon of June 29 at the Kaiserslautern Central Station.
“According to the results of the investigations, the stabbing was preceded by the fact that the 64-year-old sexually harassed the 20-year-old by grabbing her buttocks, an exchange of words, and that the 20-year-old opened a folding knife she was carrying with her, so that she made stabbing movements in the direction of the 64-year-old,” the prosecutor’s office stated.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the woman followed the man, who then grabbed the arm she was using to hold the knife. After releasing her arm, she gave him a single knife wound to the chest. He passed away “within a few seconds.”
Neither the woman nor the man who were stabbed were named by the prosecutor’s office.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the American woman claimed that she acted in self-defense and did not intend to harm the man’s feelings.
The Kaiserslautern Public Prosecutor’s Office agreed that the woman did not intentionally aim for the man’s heart and charged her with bodily injury resulting in death.
“The accusation of bodily injury resulting in death requires intent only with regard to the bodily injury and (only) negligence with regard to the consequence of death,” according to the prosecutor’s office.
Kaiserslautern Regional Court will make the final decision regarding the charge against the woman, which was brought there by the prosecutor’s office.
An NBC News request for comment on Tuesday was not immediately answered by the U.S. Department of State.
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