(20.07.2009)
BRAVO’s Exclusive! With Tokio Hotel-drummer Gustav: The scars will remain forever!
The images really give goose bumps! Tokio Hotel-drummer Gustav Schäfer (20) was brutally beaten! How could this happen?
The story of that dramatic night: Gustav wanted to party in his hometown Magdeburg. At 3:30am, he goes with a friend to “The Club”, a local night joint. Shortly after 4am, the drummer is talking to some girls, he gets attacked by 3 men! They intimidate Gustav (1.68 cm) and beat him in the face.
The men disappear for a little while. A few seconds later, they attack him again, this time from behind! “One of the three hit him in the head with a bottle” says the Club’s owner Panos Kondogtis (47) to Bravo. When the glass shattering, Gustav gets a large number of cuts on the head, one was over 5 cm long! A witness reported: “Gustav bled terribly from the head.” His friend led him to the bathroom at the disco, and tried to stop the bleeding with towels. Then the ambulance arrives. Gustav gave a courteous goodbye to the owner, and says to him: “I am sorry for the incident.“ At the hospital, they shaved off some hair and stitched the wounds with 36 stitches. Then he can go home.
A few days after the nasty attacks he talks exclusively with Bravo. Bravely he says: “I am better already. Okay, I’m not great yet, but still better.” Why he was attacked, he does not know. “No idea, maybe they had been drinking something strange.” But witnesses say that the girls who talked to Gustav, were apparently friends of the offender and therefore jealousy and envy led to the attack. “Envy can lead people to do terrible things,” said Gustav. “But I am not quite the great womanizer, for you to become jealous of.” Details about the evening Tokio Hotel-drummer can not tell.
As the police investigation against beater goes, Gustav has filed a complaint against the asaliants. The star is not looking for revenge: “But I hope that the guilty are apprehended, so that they do not get up to more trouble. Vindictive, I am not.” And this despite the fact that he will remember this terrible night the rest of his life. “The scars will remain, but I do not think it is so bad. There are more important things in life,” he says bravely. Gustav sees it positively: “I could have had the bottle and glass fragments in the eye. It could have been really bad,“ he says. “I can be glad that I did not get the bottle from the front but from behind the . In other words, thanks to their bein sneaky, I was not blind!” How will Gustav protect himselfe against such attacks in future? “I have always thought it was important to have my privacy without security people, who follow every step I take. I do not want to lose my old life,” he insists. “But how I can in the future, I still do not know.”
He is aslo very grateful to all his friends and fans: “I have received an incredible number of letters and support. It’s crazy how much love they have shown me, I am so touched. Thank you so much!”
