Teenage girl 'made up' migrant rape claim that outraged Germany

A 13-year-old Russian-German girl has admitted making up a story about being kidnapped and raped by migrants in a case that triggered a furore in Germany and briefly embroiled Berlin police in a spat with the Kremlin, state prosecutors said.

The parents of the teenager, named only as Lisa, reported her missing on 11 January after she failed to appear at school in the Marzahn district of the capital. She reappeared 30 hours later with injuries on her face, and told her parents she had been attacked by men of Middle Eastern or north African appearance. News of the incident spread on social media, sparking outrage among Berlin’s Russian-German community.

But when she was questioned by trained specialists three days later “she immediately admitted that the story of the rape was not true”, said the spokesman for the state prosecutor, Martin Steltner.

He said the teenager had been scared of going home after the school had contacted her parents over unnamed problems.

Yet the allegations caused uproar in Berlin, particularly after reports of mass sexual assaults allegedly carried out by migrants in Cologne. A Russian-German community group staged a protest, supported by the Pegida-related Bärgida movement. The far-right National Democratic party also demonstrated in Marzahn.

The mood was exacerbated by a report on Russian state TV, in which the girl’s relatives claimed her allegations were not being investigated.

The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, also weighed in to criticise the Berlin authorities. “The news that she disappeared was kept secret for a very long time,” he told a press conference, blaming “political correctness”.

Analysis of the teenager’s mobile phone records showed she had spent the night with a friend, who is not being treated as a suspect.

Her mother told Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday that Lisa was “doing very badly” and was having treatment in a psychiatric ward.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/31/teenage-girl-made-up-migrant-claim-that-caused-uproar-in-germany?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews

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How many of these stories regarding migrants are false, just like this one? Smh.

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Reply 1

BlackSweetness

Doesnt suprise me,
People will look for anything to breed hatred!
I hope that sick young girl gets what she deserves!

Reply 2

The_Internet

So she has single handedly added to a less cohesive society. The far right will happily ignore this and go on her earlier story to try and make people hate migrants or "foreign. Looking people"

Reply 3

AlifunArnab

Original post by BlackSweetness

Doesnt suprise me,
People will look for anything to breed hatred!
I hope that sick young girl gets what she deserves!

'Her mother told Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday that Lisa was “doing very badly” and was having treatment in a psychiatric ward.'

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 4

Farm_Ecology

Original post by AlifunArnab

when she was questioned by trained specialists three days later “she immediately admitted that the story of the rape was not true”, said the spokesman for the state prosecutor, Martin Steltner.

Was it just the rape that was made up, or was it the whole event? The article wasnt clear

Reply 5

AlifunArnab

Original post by Farm_Ecology

Was it just the rape that was made up, or was it the whole event? The article wasnt clear

I don't know for sure but the article states that 'analysis of the teenager’s mobile phone records showed she had spent the night with a friend, who is not being treated as a suspect.'

Reply 6

username2280427

That is just utterly disgusting. By no means should someone make any false claims about rape.

Reply 7

FriendlyPenguin

Like the volunteer who faked the story about the migrant who froze to death?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12127980/Volunteer-at-Berlin-refugee-office-admits-he-made-up-story-of-migrant-freezing-to-death.html

Reply 8

Lord Kek

Original post by AlifunArnab

why do you have an ISIS flag as an avatar pic ?

Reply 9

al_94

Thanks for posting this that girl needs to pay for what she's done

Reply 10

Tcannon

The German police interviewed the girl and questioned about the validity of her accusations. Her story just did not add up. Russian media picked up the story and gullible Russians in Germany went on the street for a protest. I can remember even a hysterical thread on TSR that "Muslims kidnapped and raped girl in Germany". So indirectly the media and forums look foolish.

Reply 11

AlifunArnab

Original post by Mathemagicien

Both are wrong. Agreed?

I'm sure you realise though that out of both stories, the girl claiming to be raped had a lot more coverage and was a lot more problematic.

Original post by Lord Kek

why do you have an ISIS flag as an avatar pic ?

ISIS flag? Where?

Original post by al_94

Thanks for posting this

Least I could do. :wink:

Reply 12

mkap

smh. I wonder how many of the other claims are actually true. She has single handily caused the uproar which poor migrants have to suffer for now.

Reply 13

tengentoppa

Vile girl. False rape allegations are sickening.

Original post by The_Internet

So she has single handedly added to a less cohesive society. The far right will happily ignore this and go on her earlier story to try and make people hate migrants or "foreign. Looking people"

Not really. The mass sexual assaults on New year's eve saw to that. That this story was made up does not invalidate the fact that many of these migrants have no qualms about sexually assaulting western women.

Reply 14

Lord Kek

Original post by AlifunArnab

ISIS flag? Where?

Here

Reply 15

z33

how the **** could you even THINK about lying about something like that? :confused:

I just can't understand the logic behind it...
what was she expecting to get out of it?

It doesn't change the fact that these things have happened many times in Germany but that's so offensive to the women who actually experienced such horrific crimes

disgusting :colonhash: