{"id":374227,"date":"2025-08-26T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:16:14","slug":"us-man-stabbed-in-germany-21-yr-old-ny-model-severely-injured-while-trying-to-save-2-women-from-local-thugs-who-is-john-rudat-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374227\/","title":{"rendered":"US man stabbed in Germany: 21-yr-old NY model severely injured while trying to save 2 women from local thugs; who is John Rudat? | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123515949.jpg\" alt=\"US man stabbed in Germany: 21-yr-old NY model severely injured while trying to save 2 women from local thugs; who is John Rudat?\" title=\"John Rudat, a 21-yr-old NY model was knifed in Germany while trying to save 2 women (Source: Instagram\/@JohnRudat)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>John Rudat, a 21-yr-old NY model was knifed in Germany while trying to save 2 women (Source: Instagram\/@JohnRudat) An American tourist was brutally stabbed on a tram in Dresden, Germany, after stepping in to protect two women from being assaulted, local media reported. The victim, identified as 21-year-old John Rudat from upstate New York, suffered severe facial injuries in the early Sunday attack. Rudat, a part-time model and newly qualified paramedic, was staying with his former foreign exchange host family in the city at the time. According to German outlet Bild, the incident involved a known local thug and drug dealer. German police arrested a 21-year-old Syrian national on suspicion of assaulting Rudat, but prosecutors later released him, citing insufficient evidence of his role in the stabbing. \u201cThe knife attack cannot be attributed to him,\u201d Senior Public Prosecutor J\u00fcrgen Schmidt was quoted as saying, the New York Post reported. Rudat later took to Instagram to slam the attackers and criticized Europe\u2019s immigration policies. \u201cIf Germans are held to law and structure, but these people can just come in, swing knives, hurt and terrorize citizens, then what do we do?\u201d he asked in a video message.\u201cIt is 11:57 a.m. right now. In three minutes, that man that assaulted that young woman will be released from custody. He\u2019ll be released from custody because he\u2019s not a citizen of Germany, he\u2019s not a citizen of the EU for that matter,\u201d Rudat said. The US Embassy in Berlin condemned the attack, calling Rudat\u2019s intervention \u201ccourageous\u201d and urging German authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. \u201cSafety is a collective responsibility\u2014no one is safe until all are safe,\u201d the embassy said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Rudat, a 21-yr-old NY model was knifed in Germany while trying to save 2 women (Source: Instagram\/@JohnRudat)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[130874,130873,2000,299,1824,130876,130769,130875],"class_list":{"0":"post-374227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-american-tourist-attacked","9":"tag-dresden-stabbing","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-intervention-against-assault","14":"tag-john-rudat","15":"tag-model-injured-in-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115093607830193572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}