The attack came out of nowhere and with full force. “I had loaded the dishwasher when my girlfriend suddenly yelled at me that I was completely incapable. She grabbed the glass sugar shaker that was on the table and rammed the metal tip into my right cheek,” says Martin Neumann. * (*name changed by editors) The wound was bleeding profusely and had to be stitched up by the doctor. Neumann made up a story about how he accidentally self-inflicted the injury. How it really came about, he concealed. The girlfriend later hugged him and apologized to him, Neumann recalls – more out of a sense of duty than genuine remorse, he got the impression.
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