Several men allegedly raped and tortured a 30-year-old Iranian man in a ruined brewery in North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday night. New details are now emerging.
At midday on Sunday, the police and public prosecutor’s office announced that a police operation had been carried out in Iserlohn late on Saturday night in connection with a sexual offence.
Witnesses had reported screams coming from a building at around 11.30 pm. According to the newspaper ‘Bild’, it was the ruins of a brewery. The police found the 30-year-old man injured in the building. The injured man was a refugee from Iran, confirmed public prosecutor Michael Burggräf.
The search with a police helicopter was quickly successful. Four suspects, aged 24, 34, 42 and 46, were tracked down and arrested in a neighbouring wooded area. As a political background could not be ruled out, the state security services took over the investigation.
As reported by the news magazine ‘Spiegel’, the alleged perpetrators are said to be Iranians loyal to the regime who had been in a political dispute with the victim before the offence. The man who was raped was an opponent of the Mullah regime, ‘according to the current state of knowledge, the victim was to be humiliated above all’, said the Hagen public prosecutor Michael Burggräf to the magazine.
The four suspects are now in custody. This was announced by the police and the public prosecutor’s office. A political motive is still being investigated because the suspects and the victim could be from Iran. The ongoing investigation is also looking into whether the victim and the suspects knew each other.
Four men, aged 24, 34, 42 and 46, were tracked down and arrested in a forest near the scene of the crime. Two further suspects are still being sought. The arrested men have stated that they are Dutch and Danish citizens with Iranian roots. The information is now being verified, the spokesman for the Burggräf public prosecutor’s office added.
Männer-Gruppe soll Iraner (30) in Brauerei-Ruine vergewaltigt und gequält haben – FOCUS online