Hero American tourist and model reveals extent of facial injuries suffered while defending two women in Germany: ‘Wear my scar with pride’

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Hero American tourist and model reveals extent of facial injuries suffered while defending two women in Germany: ‘Wear my scar with pride’

“I felt the man drag his knife across my face and cut through my nose. But I will wear my scar with pride,” 21-year-old John Rudat told journalist Julian Reichelt.

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Hero American tourist and model reveals extent of facial injuries suffered while defending two women in Germany: ‘Wear my scar with pride’​

By
Alex Oliveira



Published Aug. 25, 2025

Updated Aug. 25, 2025, 8:41 p.m. ET












The American tourist stabbed defending two women from vicious thugs on a tram in Germany revealed he was nearly blinded from the attack – but declared he’ll wear his scars with “pride” in his first interview since the frightening ordeal.

“The injury to the face, the cut to the nose. It severed my nose in two and part of my lip here,” 21-year-old John Rudat told journalist Julian Reichelt. “It just nicked the eyelid. Just a centimeter off and I would have lost my eye for sure.

“I felt the man drag his knife across my face and cut through my nose. But I will wear my scar with pride,” Rudat said.

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21-year-old John Rudat was stabbed in Germany while protecting two women from an assault. Instagram/@nico.wtgl
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Rudat, a model from upstate New York, said he will wear his scar “with pride.” @AchtungReichelt

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Rudat, a model from upstate New York, remains hospitalized after the Sunday attack in Dresden, where he intervened as a locally-known drug dealer and one of his cronies were accosting the women.

He told Reichelt that nobody else on the tram came to the woman’s aid.

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“What I did, I would have done for anyone, of any skin color,” he said.

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“No one else stepped in to help her. For many Germans, knife violence has become everyday life. People are afraid because friends have been attacked, injured, even killed.”


Rudat was in Germany visiting his former home-stay family from his days doing a foreign exchange, and said the city seemed more dangerous since he’d last been.


“I was in Germany in 2022. It felt safer back then. Now it feels more, well, dangerous. The problem has been ignored too long,” Rudat said.


One of the suspected attackers – a 21-year-old Syrian national – was arrested, but was later released over lack of evidence, the German outlet Bild reported.


The other attacker remains in the wind.

 

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Syrian migrant accused of slashing hero American model John Rudat was previously let go by cops before being busted for gruesome attack

The migrant, who was previously taken into custody and then released on Sunday following the gruesome attack in Dresden, was re-arrested early Tuesday.

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Syrian migrant accused of slashing hero American model John Rudat was previously let go by cops before being busted for gruesome attack​

By
Anthony Blair



Published Aug. 26, 2025, 9:33 a.m. ET












Police in Germany have arrested a 21-year-old Syrian national, and accused him of slashing hero American model John Rudat across the face after he stepped in to help two women being violently assaulted on a tram.

The migrant, who was previously taken into custody and then released on Sunday following the gruesome attack in Dresden, was re-arrested early Tuesday after new evidence came to light, police in the eastern German city said in a statement.

“Now that further investigation results are available, the 21-year-old Syrian, who was briefly in police custody on August 24, 2025, is also under strong suspicion of having been involved in the knife attack on the American and of having injured the victim with a dangerous object,” the statement reads.

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The scene of a violent altercation on a German tram on Sunday, August 24, 2025. xcitepress/florian varga
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American hero John Rudat was severely injured after stepping in to help two women from being attacked in Germany on Sunday, August 24, 2025. Instagram/@nico.wtgl

“Upon learning of the new findings, the Dresden Public Prosecutor’s Office immediately ordered the provisional arrest of the 21-year-old suspect, which was carried out by the Dresden Police Department in the early hours of August 26, 2025.”

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Male model John Rudat was brutally injured after trying to help two women from being attacked on a tram on Sunday, August 24, 2025. Instagram/@john.rudat
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The heroic American tourist was slashed in the face during the attack. Instagram / @john.rudat
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The Syrian national was previously allowed to walk free less than 12 hours after being arrested at a Dresden migrant shelter because prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to tie him to the stabbing.

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Police at the scene of the attack on Sunday, August 24, 2025. xcitepress/florian varga