The reasons for the verdict caused puzzlement: Because he was “fully integrated”, a judge in Regensburg, Bavaria, let the confessed rapist of a girl (16) go free. The fugitive was given 22 months probation and a condition: he is only allowed to drink a little beer.
If it were not so sad, it could be an episode from the TV series Royal Bavarian District Court: In Regensburg, the Afghan refugee Mohammad M. (23) had to answer for sexual harassment, coercion and rape of a teenager. Despite confessing, he left the courtroom a free man. The shameful sentence: 22 months on probation, participation in an anti-aggression training. And: In future, the Muslim may only consume so much alcohol that he has a maximum of 0.5 per mille in his blood.
The very fact that a 23-year-old sex offender is enjoying the benefits of the juvenile criminal law pisses people off. But the refugee, who arrived in 2015, was, by his own admission, 19 years old when he started his series of assaults on young women. Legally, he was treated as an adolescent.
It started on a park bench near the main railway station. Mohammad M., who was drunk, harassed a girl and groped her under her clothes. Only after fierce resistance did he let go of his victim. A short time later he sat down with the teenager (16) and violated her.
Weeks later, he violently forced a young woman to have oral sex in a railway subway. He harassed other victims and sexually molested them. Crimes against five women were charged. After a complaint, the police arrested him at the airport on his return from home leave in Kabul.
According to the defence lawyer, the judge described the confessed defendant as a “model example” of “how to get on well in Germany”. After all, he had graduated from secondary school after arriving in Germany and had completed an apprenticeship with a heating engineer. The Afghan also plays in a local football club.
Mohammad M. offered the still traumatised rape victim voluntary compensation of 2,500 euros. The young woman declined with thanks.
“Gut integriert”: Richter lässt Vergewaltiger “Mohammad” M. (23) laufen | Exxpress