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Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2016 19:29:16 GMT
The demonstrators were angry after reports on the popular Russian television station Channel One that a 13-year-old girl from a Russian-immigrant family had been abducted on her way to school and gang-raped by "southern-looking" asylum-seekers. But German police say that after questioning and examination it was clear that Lisa F was not abducted and not raped. Sexual contact was not forced, say officers. Because the girl is only 13 years old prosecutors are investigating two men for child abuse. The age of consent in Germany is 14 and while sex with an under-aged child is classed as statutory rape, it is generally seen as child abuse if violence was not used. Berlin's Interior Minister Frank Henkel has responded by saying he is baffled by Moscow's involvement in an ongoing police investigation, countering that German police and prosecutors abide by the law. "The accusation that investigators are covering something up does not become more correct, simply by continually repeating it," he said.
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2016 6:28:57 GMT
A Berlin-based correspondent for Russian state television finds himself accused of incitement after reporting about migrants allegedly gang raping a 13-year-old girl. Ivan Blagoy reported on Russia's Channel 1 that the Russian-German girl was kidnapped at Berlin's Mahlensdorf train station on her way to school, driven to an apartment, and raped and beaten over the course of 30 hours. German media also reported on the case, but Blagoy's report claimed police had refused to launch criminal proceedings in an attempt to cover up the case, and quoted the teen's uncle as saying police had pressured the girl to say the sex was consensual. To Berlin-based lawyer Martin Luithle, Blagoy's coverage was a reckless attempt to incite fear and hatred against migrants among Germany's 6 million Russian speakers, and is punishable under German law. Berlin police commented two days later, posting a statement on their Facebook page saying it had been determined that the girl had gone missing for a short period, but soon returned home. "The fact is -- according to the data of our Criminal Police Land Headquarters -- there was neither a kidnapping nor a rape," the statement read.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2016 5:58:47 GMT
In the Berlin case, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office told Reuters that mobile phone location tracking data did not support the girl's account that migrants held her for 30 hours. The girl's claim that she had been raped was also disproved, the spokesman added. German media said a family conflict could have prompted the girl to disappear. Lavrov and Steinmeier spoke by telephone on Friday, officials in Berlin and Moscow confirmed. They did not say if they had discussed the girl's case. In the Berlin case, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office told Reuters that mobile phone location tracking data did not support the girl's account that migrants held her for 30 hours. The girl's claim that she had been raped was also disproved, the spokesman added. German media said a family conflict could have prompted the girl to disappear. Lavrov and Steinmeier spoke by telephone on Friday, officials in Berlin and Moscow confirmed. They did not say if they had discussed the girl's case.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2016 5:52:40 GMT
A 13-year-old Russian-German girl has admitted making up a story about being kidnapped and raped by migrants in a case that triggered a furore in Germany and briefly embroiled Berlin police in a spat with the Kremlin, state prosecutors said. The parents of the teenager, named only as Lisa, reported her missing on 11 January after she failed to appear at school in the Marzahn district of the capital. She reappeared 30 hours later with injuries on her face, and told her parents she had been attacked by men of Middle Eastern or north African appearance. News of the incident spread on social media, sparking outrage among Berlin’s Russian-German community. But when she was questioned by trained specialists three days later “she immediately admitted that the story of the rape was not true”, said the spokesman for the state prosecutor, Martin Steltner. He said the teenager had been scared of going home after the school had contacted her parents over an incident at school.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2016 5:45:06 GMT
A 13-year-old German girl who claimed she had been kidnapped and raped by migrants made up the entire story, police have said. The girl, only known as Lisa F, told police she had been taken from a suburb in east Berlin and held captive for 30 hours by 'foreign-looking' men who raped her. Lisa F. is a member of Berlin's Russian community, and her made-up tale was widely reported in Russian media and saw Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuse Germany of 'sweeping problems under the rug'. Lisa F. whose full surname cannot be revealed due to German privacy law, was reported missing by her parents two weeks ago when she 'disappeared' on her way to school in Marzahn, Berlin. She reappeared after 30 hours, and claimed she had been kidnapped by 'men of Middle Eastern or north African appearance,' the Guardian reports. However, Berlin prosecutor's office spokesman Martin Steltner has now confirmed that there was no evidence to support the rape and kidnapping claims made by Lisa F. Mobile phone location tracking data did not support the girl's account that migrants held her for 30 hours. She eventually admitted to police that she had made up the story after an issue at school had made her afraid to go home to her parents.
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