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Eight Iraqi nationals are set to spend up to 13 years in prison after a
court in Austria Thursday convicted them of gang-raping a German tourist in
the early hours of New Year's Day more than a year ago.
The Iraqis, aged between 22 and 48, arrived in Austria as migrants between
May and December 2015. Five received refugee status.
The court awarded the victim -- a 28-year old woman -- more than $26,000 in
damages, and dismissed charges against a ninth suspect. Both sides appealed
the ruling, according to a court statement.
Four Iraqi men knew the tourist had been drinking heavily on and could not
defend herself before they took her to a Vienna apartment, where the entire
group took turns raping her on Jan. 1, 2016, prosecutors said. They added
that when the woman regained control, she found herself naked in a bed.
She was celebrating the holiday with a friend in Vienna beforehand, the BBC
reported.
All but one of the defendants denied raping the woman while some
acknowledged having what they described as voluntary sex with her. But
prosecutor Karina Fehringer suggested that was impossible, describing the
victim as being in defenseless in an "unconscious, shock-rigid" state.
The sentences ranged from nine to 13 years, although the maximum sentence
for rape is 15 years in Austria. Judge Petra Poschalko said only two of the
defendants had helped the court establish the facts and only one had
confessed.
Germany saw a slew of sexual assaults that same New Year's Eve -- from as
many as 2,000 attackers, according to a leaked police document.
Defense lawyer Andreas Reichenbach observed that the Austria crime was
committed at around the same time as the assaults in Cologne, Germany, by
groups of refugees. He suggested the tough sentences might be an "additional
message" that such actions would not be tolerated.
Fehringer dismissed defense claims the woman may have sent "false signals"
that could have encouraged the men. The lawyer asked, "Should we stick
warnings on bottles: 'excess consumption could be interpreted as agreement
to have sex?"' according to the reporting of the Austria Press Agency.
Fehringer also said the victim continued to suffer post-traumatic effects
from the assault, and needed psychiatric treatment.
The 48-year-old man whose charges were dismissed said he had been asleep
during the assaults. |
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