She had trusted him, he raped her.
After a night of partying in April 2022, a student of psychology (34) from Bavaria wanted to get to her flat in Dresden (Saxony) shortly before 5am. To get home safely, she ordered a taxi. During the journey, the drunk woman (champagne, wine and cocktails) lay on the back seat.
The student with long blonde hair couldn’t make it to the flat on her own, taxi driver Mojib M. (28) – a refugee from Afghanistan – took the woman upstairs.
Babysitter Julia A. (27) was already waiting at home. The Brazilian woman had been looking after the student’s sleeping child and thought the man was a friend of the woman’s who was taking her home.
Mojib M. put the student on the sofa, the babysitter covered her up and said goodbye. According to public prosecutor Thomas Franz (34), the taxi driver then took off the defenceless woman’s dress and raped her.
Two years after the offence, the trial is now underway. Through his lawyer Fanny Schmidt (44), the taxi driver (who was not in custody) explained that there had been sexual intercourse. He reported that the student had kissed him beforehand. The Afghan told the judge: “I understood that she wanted to have sex with me.” The victim, who had many lapses of memory due to the alcoholic intoxication, endured the rape: “I had the urge to scream, but nothing came out. I knew that my five-year-old son was asleep in the next room and I was scared. The only fear I had was that my son might be harmed in some way.” The trial lasted more than nine hours. But in the end, there was nothing to support the Afghan’s version of events. Judge Hermann Hopp-Schwab (61): “You are a taxi driver, you are concerned about the health of your guest. Then I won’t get involved in sexual contact. That means when you’re at work and have got other business.” The taxi driver meekly: “I’ve lost my temper.”
The refugee, who has no criminal record and speaks good German, now drives a taxi in Mönchengladbach (North Rhine-Westphalia) and, by his own admission, had “not attended school”. He was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for rape. The judgement is not yet final.
Prozess in Dresden: Afghanischer Taxifahrer vergewaltigt Frau | Regional | BILD.de