Moabit

Moabit enters the story as the destination for a nighttime sale meant to turn the stolen computers and monitors into cash. The proposed deal sounds tightly managed; the actual meeting, reported afterward by Lukas, leaves the sellers robbed instead.

The Proposed Sale

An intermediary tells the group that acquaintances of his will buy everything they have in a single transaction. Before setting a price, he asks for the exact kinds and numbers of computers and screens. The men are to meet that night in Moabit, where he says they will speak with Abdul, take the money first, hand over the goods, and leave. He stresses that the exchange should take only a minute. Although he says he will arrange the details, he cannot attend because he has to work and cannot swap shifts, so the others must go alone. His instructions include a warning that they should keep quiet and avoid trouble, especially Julius.

The Meeting Point and Its Reversal

When Lukas later explains what happened, he places the group at Beusselstraße, behind a bridge, in the parking lot of a hardware store. They waited there for several minutes before two cars arrived. The smooth, prearranged sale had become a robbery: Lukas says they had followed the instructions, yet the men lost the computers and monitors. The contrast between the promised one-minute exchange and the failed transaction makes Moabit a point of exposure rather than a route to profit. The account also shows how the intermediary’s confident directions did not protect the sellers once they were left to carry out the deal themselves.