Hugo Gurdon says stabbing in Germany isn’t unique due to open borders

Published August 26, 2025 12:38am ET



Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon talks about how an American stabbed in Germany isn’t an issue isolated to the European country — or Europe — alone, and that it is related to “a grievous version of the problem that we had with open borders here” in America.

John Rudat, 21, was an American tourist traveling in Dresden early Sunday when he reportedly stepped in as two women were being attacked by a pair of Syrian men, according to an online fundraiser set up by his brother’s girlfriend, Molly Sheldon. During Rudat’s intervention, he was stabbed in the face allegedly by a Syrian asylum-seeker in Germany.

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