MEP: Police in Germany arrested the man suspected of brutally kicking a 26-year-old woman down a flight of stairs in a metro station in an assault caught on a surveillance camera in Berlin.
The 27-year old man and his three accomplices are said to hail from Bulgaria.
The attacker was reportedly detained at a Berlin bus station in the district of Charlottenburg on Saturday afternoon.
The law enforcement apprehended the man upon his arrival to Berlin when he was still inside a bus.
Video of the senseless act of violence caught by metro CCTV went viral and led to a massive outcry for the suspect’s arrest.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson with the Berlin prosecutor’s office said the man had just arrived in the German capital on a bus that originated from southern France.
The attack which took place on October 27, a man clutching a beer bottle followed a woman walking down subway stairs.
He then raised his leg and kicked the woman in the middle of her back, sending her face-first down the flight of stairs at Berlin’s Hermannstraße metro stop.
The man and a group of his companions then walked away while bystanders at the bottom of the stairs rushed to assist the victim.
She had to be hospitalized following the attack and suffered a broken arm.
The shocking video sparked international outrage, with several people offering rewards for the man’s arrest.
