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Head doctor arrested for killing unwitting woman with cocaine during sex

A head doctor in Saxony-Anhalt has been arrested under suspicion that he dosed a woman with cocaine during oral sex without her knowledge. The woman collapsed and died in hospital.

Published: 11 April 2018 10:55 CEST
Updated: 11 April 2018 13:55 CEST

Head doctor arrested for killing unwitting woman with cocaine during sex

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Prosecutors are investigating a charge against the 42-year-old doctor of bodily harm leading to death, the Volksstimme reported on Wednesday.

The 38-year-old woman was reportedly involved in consensual oral sex with the doctor on February 20th, when she collapsed at his home in Halberstadt. She was brought to a local hospital by ambulance but died shortly after.

Prosecutors charge that he gave her cocaine without her knowing about it during oral sex.

The doctor from the Harzer Clinic is also suspected of secretly dosing three other women with cocaine during sex, although the other woman did not suffer serious adverse consequences.

Prosecutors say that it cannot be ruled out that other women in other parts of the country could have also unwittingly consumed cocaine after having intercourse with the doctor, as he had previously practised nationwide.

Germany raids properties in bribery probe aimed at AfD politician

The investigation targets Petr Bystron, the number-two candidate for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in next month’s European Parliament elections, Der Spiegel news outlet reported.

Police, and prosecutors in Munich, confirmed on Thursday they were conducting “a preliminary investigation against a member of the German Bundestag on the initial suspicion of bribery of elected officials and money laundering”, without giving a name.

Properties in Berlin, the southern state of Bavaria and the Spanish island of Mallorca were searched and evidence seized, they said in a statement.

About 70 police officers and 11 prosecutors were involved in the searches.

Last month, Bystron denied media reports that he was paid to spread pro-Russian views on a Moscow-financed news website, just one of several scandals that the extreme-right anti-immigration AfD is battling.

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Bystron’s offices in the German parliament, the Bundestag, were searched after lawmakers voted to waive the immunity usually granted to MPs, his party said.

The allegations against Bystron surfaced in March when the Czech government revealed it had bust a Moscow-financed network that was using the Prague-based Voice of Europe news site to spread Russian propaganda across Europe.

Did AfD politicians receive Russian money?

Czech daily Denik N said some European politicians cooperating with the news site were paid from Russian funds, in some cases to fund their European Parliament election campaigns.

It singled out the AfD as being involved.

Denik N and Der Spiegel named Bystron and Maximilian Krah, the AfD’s top candidate for the European elections, as suspects in the case.

After the allegations emerged, Bystron said that he had “not accepted any money to advocate pro-Russian positions”.

Krah has denied receiving money for being interviewed by the site.

On Wednesday, the European Union agreed to impose a broadcast ban on the Voice of Europe, diplomats said.

The AfD’s popularity surged last year, when it capitalised on discontent in Germany at rising immigration and a weak economy, but it has dropped back in the face of recent scandals.

As well as the Russian propaganda allegations, the party has faced a Chinese spying controversy and accusations that it discussed the idea of mass deportations with extremists, prompting a wave of protests across Germany.

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