Deadline Journalist & Film Sales Agent Attacked In Separate Incidents During Berlin Film Festival

deadline.com:

A Deadline journalist was physically assaulted yesterday evening [Saturday 15] while attending the Berlin Film Festival. Matt Carey, our Documentary Editor, who is in town to cover and moderate panels for the festival’s documentary strand, was kicked and punched repeatedly in an unprovoked attack on Leipziger Strasse, near the Mall Of Berlin and the festival’s main hub of Potsdamer Platz.

Also yesterday evening, at a similar time, a female film sales agent was aggressed by a group of youths while walking through Elise Tilse Park, between the Movenpick Hotel and Hotel London, a few minutes walk from Potsdamer Platz.

Matt was on his way to a dinner at around 7.30pm when the attack took place. According to Matt, a group of around 8-10 youths, described as likely in their teens, initially threw a hard, icy snowball at him.

When he turned around to ask them to stop, the group rounded on him and began to kick and punch him, forcing him to the floor and damaging his glasses.