Curb biting

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Curb stomp ( English stomping Curb , Curbjob ), coll. Curb scuffing , curb bashing , curb kick or curb Breaker , describes an act of violence, where the victim with his mouth and his teeth in a fixed location - usually a curb - fixed and kicked in the neck becomes. The result is often a broken neck and thus the death of the victim. With sufficient force, it can also lead to a severe skull fracture, a transverse fracture of the skull base .

Known cases

On July 12, 2002, 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl was seriously injured by young neo-Nazis in a pigsty in Potzlow, Brandenburg, when he was kicked - in this case on a pig trough - and then murdered. The perpetrators later stated that they knew the film American History X , and the judge in charge suspected that the depiction of this act of violence, known as the curb kick , in that film motivated them to commit their crime. The three offenders received sentences of 15 years 'imprisonment for the adult, eight years and six months for one of the minors, and two years of probationary juvenile detention for the third offender, although this sentence was retrospectively converted to three years' imprisonment in 2004.

Representation in the press, literature, film, television and video games

Such an act was first shown in a film in American History X in 1998 . The explicit depiction of the crime led to a controversial discussion about this depiction of violence after the film was released.

The murder of Marinus Schöberl was filmed in 2006 under the direction of Andres Veiel in Der Kick , after it had already been performed under the same title as a documentary play in Basel in 2005.

Other films and series also portray curb biting in key scenes.

In wrestling, the WWE wrestling pro Seth Rollins used curb biting , in English called curb stomp , as a fight end. Rollins said in 2015 that he stopped using it for PR reasons because the curb stomp was too violent and he didn't want kids to imitate it. On January 15, 2018, he used this bout ending again on Monday Night Raw , but it is now referred to only as a "stomp".

In newspapers, magazines and books, curb biting has been discussed in connection with crime.

  • In November 1990, Der Spiegel conducted an interview with a neo-Nazi in which he described the curb bashing of a neo-Nazi group against a leftist.
  • In the book Berlin: Biography of a City by David Clay Large, curb bashing is mentioned as a method of violence used by neo-Nazis in 2002, whereby the victim's jaw is broken by a kick with a steel toe boot.
  • In May 2005, the Nordwest-Zeitung reported on the December 2003 curb-biting trial of a 16-year-old boy who was able to avoid a broken neck by turning his head before kicking. The perpetrator was a 19-year-old who was part of a group of five right-wing extremists. The charges against the main perpetrator were attempted murder , which could not be proven by the end of the trial in June 2006. The other four perpetrators were charged with dangerous assault .
  • In 2011, curb biting was mentioned in the book We Were Young and Needed the Money as a method of violence used by street gangs who stole their jackets from victims. Loss of teeth in both rows of teeth and tearing of the corners of the mouth are named as injury consequences of biting the curb.
  • In 2016, the Mail Tribune reported a curb biting case in which the victim suffered multiple skull fractures and survived the crime.
  • At the beginning of 2018, the New York newspaper reported on a right-wing radical who had killed his victim with knife wounds. The perpetrator had photographed the movement of stepping in while biting the curb and posted it on the Internet.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "You see in him a traitor and demand from Thomas that he carries out the infamous curb bashing on Georg." Kombat Sechzehn， bpb.de
  2. ^ "A few teeth go on it" , Der Spiegel , November 12, 1990
  3. ↑ Marinus Schöberl , todesopfer-rechter-gewalt-in-brandenburg.de
  4. ↑ a b c 16-year-old victim has to kneel down and bite the curb , nwzonline.de, May 11, 2005
  5. ↑ a b Photo shows 'Ivy League killer' pretending to crush friend's skull , nypost.com , January 20, 2018
  6. ↑ Blunt violence: Injuries to the bones , hinge fracture, lecturio.de
  7. ↑ American History X , kabeleins.de
  8. ↑ Simone Rafael: Up to 15 years in prison for Potzlow murder. Court: Right-wing extremist motivation. In: Märkische Allgemeine , republished in Courage against right-wing violence . October 23, 2003, archived from the original on April 22, 2004 ; accessed on January 23, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Fritsche: Why did no one help Marinus? Today verdict in the Potzlow trial , neue-deutschland.de , October 24, 2003
  10. ↑ As three neo-Nazis in Potzlow tortured a 16-year-old student to death, crime series: Potzlow in 2002: murder without remorse , MOZ.de , Nov. 8, 2011
  11. ↑ 50 Most Hard-To-Watch scenes in movie history . Complex Pop Culture. May 5, 2013.
  12. ↑ John Sellers: Curb-Stomp - An Oral History of the Grisly 'American History X' Scene . True Slant. July 27, 2009. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
  13. ↑ "The Kick": Documentary Theater in Basel , deutschlandfunk.de, April 24, 2005
  14. ↑ On a German July night: Andres Veiel's film "The Kick" is the impressive story of a crime. , Die Zeit 39/2006, September 21, 2006
  15. ↑ Oi! Warning , film-kultur.de
  16. ↑ Interview: "I hope for a different form of discussion": A conversation with Mirko Borscht about his film Kombat Sechzehn , kinofenster.de, June 1, 2005
  17. ↑ Jimmy Traina: Seth Rollins talks Brock Lesnar, Johnny Manziel, curb stomp, John Cena and more . Fox Sports . Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  18. ↑ Seth Rollins' Curb Stomp is back in WWE , heute.at, January 18, 2018
  19. ^ "A few teeth go on it" , Der Spiegel , November 12, 1990
  20. ↑ David Clay Large: Berlin: Biographie einer Stadt, CH Beck, 2002, p. 54 [1]
  21. ↑ No evidence of attempted murder , nwzonline.de, June 17, 2006
  22. ↑ Lisa Seelig, Elena Senft: We were young and needed the money, S. Fischer Verlag, 2011, p. 10 [2]
  23. ^ Men get prison for 'curb stomp' attack , Mail Tribune, July 20, 2016