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The police are investigating a 22-year-old who is said to have kidnapped an 18-year-old Berlin woman to Baden-Württemberg. The suspect is also said to have raped the young woman. The 18-year-old did not suffer any serious injuries that required inpatient treatment, said a spokesman for the Offenburg public prosecutor.
The woman was allegedly kidnapped by a vacationing acquaintance in the southwest, held for several days and raped, the authorities said on Monday. Police officers found her on Friday in an apartment in the Black Forest's Kinzigtal. She was previously considered missing. The 22-year-old, who comes from Lahr in Baden, is in custody.
The suspect has no previous convictions, said the spokesman for the public prosecutor's office. Where exactly the woman was found in Kinzigtal remained unclear.
According to initial investigations, the two had met on a previous vacation. They agreed to meet in 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. There he is said to have raped her several times.
bbr/dpa