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Cologne (dpa) - The trial against the so-called Siegaue rapist for serious arson is due to begin next Tuesday (May 4th).
The Cologne regional court announced on Thursday.
The legally convicted rapist of a young camper is said to have set fire to his prison cell in the prison in Cologne in 2018.
A prison officer and a fellow prisoner suffered smoke inhalation and he was seriously injured.
In addition, the defendant is said to have threatened prison employees with death in two cases.
The process should actually start in the spring of last year, but was postponed in the course of the first corona lockdown.
The court has scheduled four days of hearing.
The Bonn district court sentenced the rejected asylum seeker from Ghana to ten years imprisonment for particularly serious rape and extortion by predatory acts.
According to the verdict, in 2017 he attacked a young couple who were camping in the Siegaue near Bonn.
He threatened the victims with a pruning saw and raped the woman.
The act had caused horror nationwide.
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