By Anne Losensky
Pulled into the car, bag over his head, abducted and raped: Four men are said to have lured a Berliner into a Venus trap at the Zoological Garden and kidnapped him in a hotel…
District Court, Room 501. Three defendants behind bulletproof glass, hidden behind file folders. Dany-Kaled A.-K. (21, Canadian) chose the color pink, Vadim P. (21, German-Russian) orange, Sandro T. (22) blue. Ken Z. (19) is not in custody, he took the white folder.
Hidden behind the white folder: Ken Z. (19) is not in custody Photo: Olaf Wagner
The accusations: straight through the penal code. Sexual assault, rape, coercion, particularly aggravated robbery, attempted particularly aggravated extortion, aggravated assault, extortion kidnapping and hostage-taking. High prison sentences are threatened.
So young and already so evil: According to the indictment, they are said to be something like the Mafia’s pusher column and have recruited “financial agents” for this. Little people who give up their accounts for big criminals to transfer fraudulently obtained funds to. That’s called money laundering. Those who were unwilling were said to have been forced to do so, according to the indictment: beatings, humiliation, kidnapping, extortion, deprivation of liberty, armed violence, death threats, sadistic torture and compromising nudity photos.
On Tuesday at the start of the trial before the district court: the defenders of the accused Photo: Olaf Wagner
crime scenes: the underground car parks of a four-star hotel in Wilmersdorf and the shopping center at Potsdamer Platz.
tool: including a Mercedes AMG. According to the indictment, a young man was ambushed by an accomplice who allegedly fell in love with him while walking by the zoo, kidnapped and tortured in a hotel room: ten blows from debris with a baton on the left knee, one hour slaps in the face.
On February 7, 2023, the man is said to have been sprayed with red paint and raped during a “punitive action”. The process continues on Thursday. Then the four defendants want to make statements.
Judgment on August 28th.