This man caught the attacker from Aschaffenburg

WAZ This man caught the attacker from Aschaffenburg 15 hours • 3 minutes reading time Last Wednesday was supposed to be a relaxing day off for Michael Hein. After a visit to the hairdresser, the Aschaffenburg resident wanted to visit his two grandchildren and have breakfast with them. But as he was walking through Schöntal Park on the way there, he suddenly heard a woman screaming. As the 45-year-old told the broadcaster RTL, he initially thought it was a rape: "Then I said to myself, I have to intervene now." But when he arrived, he saw a handcart with children and the Afghan Enamullah O., who was randomly stabbing the kindergarten children. Hein intervened and shouted to the children and teachers: "Go away, go away, go away!" But the attacker continued to stab - a two-year-old child and the 41-year-old helper Kai-Uwe Danz would eventually die. Hein pursues perpetrator through Aschaffenburg: "I have to get him" Hein keeps at it and tries to overpower O.: "Then he saw that I was intervening and not giving up. He apparently panicked and ran, ran, ran with the knife in his hand," says Hein. The blue jacket immediately catches his eye. "I have to get him," he thinks and gives chase. Hein runs after the fugitive through the city - at the same time he calls the police and gives them the perpetrator's current location. And he also informs his daughter Giulia. "Someone has a knife!" is all she hears him call out, sweaty and tearful - then he hangs up again and a period of uncertainty begins for Giulia. "You don't know if your dad is still alive," she says about the moment. Hein about the perpetrator: "He was sick" While Giulia runs through the apartment worried and fears for her father, his father manages to catch the perpetrator on a railway track. O. had lost his bearings there and threw the knife away in a tunnel. "That's when we overpowered him," Hein remembers. The police are also quickly on the scene and arrest the attacker, which Hein films. "He was sick," Hein says about the perpetrator. "Even the way he looked at me." Shortly after the arrest, Hein is finally able to speak to his daughter on the phone in more detail and tell her in more detail what had happened: "I'm with the police. I'm the main witness. I arrested the perpetrator, or rather helped arrest him, and managed to get the police to get him," he told her. Giulia reacted with relief: "I was thankful to God that nothing had happened to him." Hein and his daughter will not be able to get over what they have experienced so quickly Michael Hein and his daughter will need a long time to process what they have experienced: "We have been together every evening for the last three days," says Giulia. She calls him regularly and asks him if he is OK. "I am tough. But when the door closes, it is difficult," says her father about what they have experienced. The third night was also "hell" for him. "It won't be over so quickly." Because one thing is clear: like Kai-Uwe Danz, he too could have died in the attack. But Hein does not see himself as a hero: "I simply did my job, what I was supposed to do. There are children involved. You shouldn't always look away, you should intervene," he says about his intervention. His daughter sees it differently: "I definitely see him as a hero. Definitely."