A 22-year-old who is said to have kidnapped an 18-year-old Berlin woman to Baden-Württemberg is accused of rape and other crimes. The 18-year-old did not suffer any serious injuries that required inpatient treatment, a spokesman for the Offenburg public prosecutor’s office told the German Press Agency.
Where the young woman was was initially left open: “For reasons of privacy, we are currently not providing any information about the victim,” the police and public prosecutor’s office said together upon request.
The investigators had already reported on Monday that the 18-year-old was allegedly kidnapped by a vacationing acquaintance in the southwest, held for several days and raped. The previously missing woman was found on Friday in an apartment in the Black Forest’s Kinzigtal.
Suspect in custody
The suspect, who comes from Lahr in Baden, is in custody. The 22-year-old German has no previous convictions, the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office reported. Investigators said there was no evidence of anyone else involved.
Where exactly the woman was found in Kinzigtal also remained unclear. She was medically examined and then cared for at Offenburg police headquarters. According to initial investigations, the two met while on vacation. They arranged to meet at the 18-year-old’s apartment in Berlin – but then the young woman disappeared.
In her apartment, the suspect is said to have threatened the 18-year-old with a weapon and tied her up. He then drove with her to Kinzigtal and held her in an apartment against her will. Investigators said on Monday that he raped her several times there. The suspect was arrested at the location of the apartment.
The kidnapping of the Berlin woman is not an isolated case in the southwest. Last July, a 37-year-old was accused of kidnapping an 18-year-old from a Stuttgart playground and later raping her several times. According to the police at the time, the man intimidated the young woman and took her to an apartment in Marbach am Neckar.
