AN AMERICAN model was left with horrifying stab wounds after being attacked while protecting two women on a German tram.

John Rudat, 21, from upstate New York , was reportedly assaulted in the city of Dresden on Sunday - and has since claimed his attacker was an "illegal immigrant".

He suffered a "deep facial wound" from the blade , and had to undergo extensive surgery in Germany .

But in a video posted to his Instagram account hours after the attack, he blasted the police and asserted that his assailant was an illegal immigrant in the country.

Shocking images released in the aftermath show him with bloody tissues and bandages all over his face.

"He doesn’t even belong in here," Rudat claimed.

"He is an immigrant, an illegal one, a drug dealer and very popularly known her

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