He took advantage of the helplessness of two women, lured them into a trap and raped them. Now Gulagha A. (40) is finally behind bars.
The 40-year-old was arrested at the beginning of December 2023 after a Dutch woman (32) reported him for rape. But he was released again. The then homeless woman – apparently completely exhausted and frozen through – had accepted the offer of the Afghan living alone to wash and rest in his flat in the Dresden district of Gorbitz.
But while the woman was still in the bathroom, he knocked several times on the locked door. When she lay down to sleep, he raped her, although the woman shouted ‘No, no’ several times. The arrest warrant against Gulagha A. was issued, but not executed – not even after a DNA comparison (sperm traces) led to the second victim.
He had already assaulted a woman a year earlier. On the 30th of November 2022, A. stalked social worker Verena K. (35, name changed) to her home in Dresden’s Neustadt district. In the courtyard of her home, he forced her onto a table and raped her. Verena K.: ‘I kept saying “No, No”, I had no strength to keep him off. When he was finished, he left without a word, leaving me lying in the courtyard.’
The presiding judge Joachim Kubista (60) sentenced the accused to four years in prison: ‘It looks as if you were deliberately looking for women who were unable to offer you any serious resistance. You deliberately took advantage of their weakness.’
Gulagha A. came to Germany with his wife and three children in 2020, he is a rejected asylum seeker and has been separated from his family since 2022. He has no criminal record.
During the trial, he said nothing about the rape allegations. When the court issued the arrest warrant, he burst into tears and let himself be led away, sobbing.
Prozess Dresden: Afghane vergewaltigte zwei Frauen | Regional | BILD.de