On 25 March 2018, 24-year-old Vivien K. was stabbed by a Syrian migrant in Burgwedel, Germany. She received life-threatening injuries and was put into an induced coma.[1][2] She woke up three days later, with broken ribs and part of her pancreas as well as her spleen removed.[3][4]
Since the culprits were teenage refugees, the case sparked a discussion about migration policies, and as it was part of a string of knife attacks, it led to concerns about a rise in knife crime in Germany.[5]
The doctors had to remove her spleen, and part of her pancreas. Her ribs are broken. On Wednesday, four days after the knife attack, she woke from the artificial coma.