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Berlin (dpa / bb) - After four brutal attacks on women, a 33-year-old was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison.
The Berlin district court found the man guilty of serious rape, hostage-taking, deprivation of liberty and bodily harm on Monday.
The defendant destroyed the lives of several women within two years, the verdict said.
The attacks were "planned, particularly cruel and brutal".
The 33-year-old is an unscrupulous perpetrator who tortured his victims for hours.
The right to impose preventive detention remains reserved.
In two cases, the man allegedly dragged a woman into his car on the street and raped her with accomplices.
"You have deliberately hunted down young women," said the presiding judge on an act in February 2020. The victim of this attack was so abused that the 21-year-old was in danger of death.
In another case about a month earlier, a then 18-year-old was suddenly dragged into a car, raped, then taken to an apartment and sexually abused again.
The women were scared to death.
The defendant also raped young women in two cases in an apartment in Berlin-Wedding, the verdict said.
The latest victim was a 14-year-old student in March 2018 who was friends with his half-brother.
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From the actions of the accused speak a deep contempt for women, so the presiding judge.
He had demonstrated a “sadistic claim to power free from any compassion”.
The order of preventive detention is reserved and can still be imposed at a later point in time if further observation of the accused in the penal system allows a more reliable prognosis as to whether he will still pose a danger to the general public after serving his sentence.
The prosecution had pleaded for a sentence of thirteen years and ten months in prison and for preventive detention.
The defense attorney demanded an acquittal.
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
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