For the double rape of a Ukrainian woman, the Düsseldorf Regional Court imposed several years in prison on Friday.

A 27-year-old man has been jailed for four years and a 38-year-old has been sentenced to three years in prison.

The court is convinced that the two men successively and independently raped the 18-year-old Ukrainian on March 6 on a hotel ship moored on the banks of the Rhine.

All three had fled to Germany via Poland after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The two men are so-called third-country nationals who were students in Ukraine.

According to the indictment, the two men had attacked the young woman on the hotel ship in quick succession, but without prior agreement.

In the early evening of March 6, the younger man raped the Ukrainian in a room on the Oscar Wilde hotel ship, which housed several refugees as well as tourists.

Immediately after the crime, the shocked and agitated woman is said to have confided in the thirty-eight-year-old, who is said to have lured her into his room on the pretext of protecting her.

It is said that the second sexual assault happened there.

Both men were arrested that same evening.