The Munich Federal Police have arrested a suspected serial rapist. His fingerprints revealed his identity.
The Federal Police apprehended a suspected rapist during border controls on Sunday evening. The Düsseldorf Regional Court had ordered the 30-year-old Iraqi to be remanded in custody in 2020. According to a report by the Federal Police, he had sexually assaulted or raped three women. According to the report, the man was accommodated in asylum accommodation in North Rhine-Westphalia at the time.
The wanted Iraqi was arrested on the motorway A93 near Kiefersfelden. The officers verified the man’s identity with the help of his fingerprints. The man had apparently previously absconded to Italy and stayed there under several names. Federal police officers now checked the man in an Italian-registered coach heading for Munich.
The man identified himself with an Italian residence permit. He had only taken a photo of his Iraqi passport with his smartphone, which he showed to the control officers. It turned out that the photographed passport had been expired for a long time. With the help of his fingerprints, the federal police found out that he was wanted several times in Germany under different personal data. According to the arrest warrant, he was a potential risk of absconding.
In addition, it turned out that the wanted Iraqi had evaded the scheduled execution of his sentence in another case. “Due to a judgement of the Düsseldorf district court from 2020, he has to serve a 90-day prison sentence for dangerous bodily harm,” the police report says. In the same year, the road traffic office in Düsseldorf had also ordered that the man’s driving licence be confiscated because of an imposed driving ban. The Rosenheim Federal Police officers found the driving licence and confiscated it. They reported the Iraqi for his illegal entry attempt and brought him before the district court in Rosenheim on Monday. There, the pre-trial detention of the alleged rapist was confirmed. He is now in the Traunstein prison.