Freiburg Mayor Martin Horn has disabled his accounts on Twitter and Instagram after hostility on the Internet. After the rape of an 18-year-old would have the non-party politicians in the social media insults and death threats reached, said a spokeswoman.
The mass of news was unmanageable, she said. The 33-year-old, who has been very active in social media so far, is still available on Facebook. Horn wanted to show that he does not duck.
The hostility against Horn are the result of a crime that had caused nationwide horror. On the night of October 14, according to investigators, a young woman was raped after a disco visit by several men in an industrial area north of the city.
Seven Syrians between the ages of 19 and 29 and a 25-year-old German are in custody under urgent suspicion. The investigators assume that there are more offenders. Horn had warned after the act to condemn refugees flat-rate and had been attacked from right-wing circles.