A 20-year-old man has been arrested for sexually harassing several young women and threatening them with a knife. He is already known to the police.
According to police reports on Tuesday, October 5, the suspect had already harassed and threatened two 16-year-old and a 17-year-old girl as well as a 25-year-old man on Friday evening, October 1. The victims called the police.
Initial investigations by the Freiburg-Nord police station revealed that shortly after 10 p.m., the man had sexually touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl at the university library. A short time later, he allegedly molested another 16-year-old girl in the same way.
The 20-year-old then approached a 17-year-old girl and her 25-year-old companion on the stairs of the municipal theatre and asked for a cigarette. After the two refused, they were allegedly insulted. The man also threatened them with a box cutter. Nobody was injured.
The man was arrested on the spot. At the request of the public prosecutor’s office in Freiburg, he is now in custody. The man is a 20-year-old man of Syrian nationality, who had been known to the police several times before.
The criminal investigation department asks witnesses and in particular other possible victims by calling 0761/882-2880.
