According to the police, the boyfriend "did everything right"; it would have accomplished nothing if the student had intervened and he or his girlfriend were had been seriously injured by the machete-wielding assailant, said a spokesman for the authorities.
Laut Polizei habe der Freund „alles richtig gemacht“, es hätte nichts gebracht, wenn der Student eingegriffen und er oder seine Freundin von dem Macheten-Mann angegriffen und schwer verletzt worden wären, so ein Behördensprecher.