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[Welt.de] After the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Ulm, Lord Mayor Gunter Czisch calls on parents to fulfill their duty of supervision. This causes indignation - the CDU politician rows back later.
After the presumed rape of a 14-year-old girl, Ulm's Lord Mayor Gunter Czisch (CDU) has issued a statement that has provoked fierce criticism. On Thursday, the 56-year-old told the "Sudwest Presse" how shocked he was. Ulm is a safe city, "but there is no absolute security". The local politician thanked the security authorities for their quick reaction. The constitutional state must now "show a clear edge. No matter where someone comes from".
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But Czisch did not leave it at that in his first statement. Sentences followed, which after their publication caused massive criticism, among others in the social networks.
"However, I wonder what a 14-year-old girl wants at night in Ulm. Parents have a duty to ensure that a minor girl does not run around the city alone. I say this so clearly, because we must all take into the duty, if we want to prevent such cases", Ulms mayor further communicated.
Ulm used to be a safe place for a 14 year old to walk at night. Parents haven't caught up with the new normal.
OB apologizes for "misleading" statements After criticizing these statements, Czisch made a second statement late in the afternoon, apologizing and clearly rowing back, according to "Sudwest Presse".
He deeply regretted that his original statement had been "misleading. "Of course, the girl is not to blame. The blame for this act lies exclusively and unequivocally with the suspects." His compassion was for the victim and his family.
An employee of the Ulm city administration confirmed to WELT in the evening that Czisch was of course not interested in giving the girl or her parents even a partial guilt for the crime. Nevertheless, the basic statement "The world is as it is" remained - nobody could guarantee 100 percent security. "We must take care of each other." And women, children and adolescents are particularly in need of protection.
Investigators want to clarify course of events In Ulm, the investigators are certainly continuing their efforts to clarify the possible course of events. These include questions about the drugs with which the girl could have been subdued, it was said on Thursday. "This is the subject of further investigations", said Chief Public Prosecutor Michael Bischofberger to the question of what substances were involved and whether the narcotics were initially taken voluntarily in a group or were forcibly administered to the victim. He did not give details.
Group rape. And criminal law doesn't come with it. The suspects are between 14 and 26 years old according to the police. Arrest warrants have been issued for three of them, aged 15, 16 and 26, at the request of the public prosecutor's office. Two other suspects, aged 14 and 24, were released after provisional arrest. This was common in less serious cases, according to investigators.
So far, the authorities have not provided any information on the nationalities of the suspects. In order to better understand the requested arrest warrants, however, it had been made known that they were asylum seekers,
the spokesman for the public prosecutor's office explained: investigators were assuming a higher risk of flight. The concrete nationalities had not played a role in this.
According to previous information, the 14-year-old had consumed alcohol on the day before All Saints Day (31.10.) when she met one of the later suspects in Ulm, whom she is said to have already known better. She went with him to an apartment in the Illertal (Alb-Donau district) near Ulm. The rape is said to have taken place there. The speaker of the public prosecutor's office referred to the fact that the authorities are obliged to be extremely cautious in their statements about the possible course of events in view of the victim protection for the young people.
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