Migrant shot dead by cops moments before he planned to murder ‘refugee paedo who abused his six-year-old daughter’
POLICE in Berlin have shot dead an Iraqi refugee as he tried to avenge his six-year-old daughter who was allegedly sexually abused by another migrant in their camp.
A 27-year-old man was being led away in handcuffs by officers when the girl's father, 29, ran at him with a knife screaming: "You will not survive!"
He was shot at by several officers late last night before being rushed to hospital where he died a short time later.
The alleged sex attacker is said to be of Pakistani origin but this has not been confirmed by police.
The attempted revenge killing has pulled into sharp focus the rising tensions within refugee centres in Germany - where aid workers and police have aired concerns about the rape of women and children.
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According to police the dead man's daughter was lured to parkland near the camp in Kruppstrasse in the gritty working class district of Moabit yesterday.
She then told her father what had happened.
Her dad then went and confronted the man "out of a sense of family honour", a police spokesman said.
Police were already on the way to the centre having been alerted by other asylum seekers housed there.
They arrested the alleged sex attacker before he was harmed but as he was being led away the father ran at him.
The alleged attacker he was trying to kill was unharmed and is now at the centre of a sex crime probe.
The Berlin City Mission camp where the father died is now a crime scene.
Police who killed the father are being investigated in case it is deemed they used excessive force.
According to a report of the Tagesspiegel newspaper in July there were 128 cases of sexual abuse in German refugee accommodations from January until March of this year.
The number of unreported incidents is feared to be far higher.