On 8 September 1992 Jeong-Seok Lim, a 33-year-old Korean student, and his wife, Haeng-Hee Yun, were involved in a minor car accident while driving home in Berlin. Two police officers who arrived at the scene, after breathalysing him, stated their intention of taking him to the police station for a blood test. They refused to allow his wife to accompany him although she was afraid of being left alone on the street in the middle of the night. When Jeong-Seok Lim tried to go to her, he was beaten and restrained, and the couple were taken to the police station. There the police continued to beat him in full view of his wife. When she was finally released, she found him slumped in the street outside the station. Doctors found that he had suffered multiple bruising to his head.
