Source: The Local
The incident took place on October 3rd – the holiday of German Unity Day when the country celebrates German reunification at the end of the Cold War in 1990, meaning Germans could once again live as brothers and sisters in one society.
But footage caught on a bank CCTV camera suggests a bitter emptiness to that sentiment. The old man collapsed while trying to transfer money at a machine in the front room of the bank in the western town.
The footage shows that four customers – men and women – avoided the man, either by stepping over him or walking around him. Only 20 minutes after he collapsed did a fifth customer finally call emergency services. But the pensioner never regained consciousness and later died in hospital.
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