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Rape suspect beaten to death in car park

A man was beaten to death in a car park in southern Germany on Wednesday evening in an apparent revenge killing after being accused of raping a woman.

Published: 19 June 2014 16:55 CEST
Rape suspect beaten to death in car park
Police in the car park on Thursday. Photo: DPA

The 27-year-old man died from his injuries after the beating in Neuenburg, Baden-Württemberg, near the French border, at around 6pm. Paramedics from France treated the man but could not save his life. He died at the scene.

Police believe he was killed by friends of a woman who suspected him of raping her almost a week earlier on June 12th.

They said family members of the woman were present at the car park, but it is unclear whether the man agreed to meet them there of if he was attacked without warning.

“There was considerable violence,” a spokeswoman for Freiburg police said on Thursday. Four suspects were arrested on Wednesday night and were questioned on Thursday.

The police spokeswoman said the man knew the woman who was raped in the nearby town of Müllheim. According to the Bädische Zeitung they were on first name terms but were not in a relationship.  

An arrest warrant for the 27-year-old had been issued and he had been on the run. 

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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