Teh One Who Knocks
12-23-2016, 03:09 PM
By Rob Virtue and Monika Pallenberg - The Express
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A PAKISTANI migrant who travelled across Europe to get to Germany has defended himself against five counts of sex assault by declaring “it’s hard to get a girlfriend if you are a refugee”.
Asif M, 26, appeared in Berlin Regional Court, where he read out a statement trying to explain the attacks.
The prosecution accuses him of having raped a young woman and committed five more sexual assaults. Asif M confirms most of the attacks between April 29 and July 25.
Prosecutors say he approached lone women in the street and told them it was his birthday.
When the women rejected him he pounced, it is alleged.
He pulled his first victim to the ground, kissed her, grabbed her chest.
The prosecution said: ”After he briefly let go of her and the witness tried to leave.
“The accused asked her to stay and undressed the witness, which she endured for fear of further violence.
"Then the accused performed unprotected vaginal sexual intercourse against the will of the witness."
Other women Asif M was said to have attacked, defended themselves and screamed, causing him to flee.
In Asif M’s statement, he apologised, saying he did not attack anyone on his journey through Europe.
It added: ”But in Germany, it somehow came out of me.
"It is hard to get a girlfriend if you are a refugee and have nothing to offer.
"I wanted to have sex."
He said he had drunk excessively before the attacks, included when he worked before the bar at a restaurant.
He also smoked a marijuana joint before the rape.
But he claims when he pulled the woman to the ground and had sex with her she “did not resist”.
However, the victim claims he apologised to her and said “are you mad at me?” after the incident.
For the defence, Ralph Schaefer told the judge: "I asked (Asif M) if there were exchanges of affection coming from witness J. He says no, she did not do anything. And that he did not realise his mistake until she said she did not like it."
At first, the court had considered agreeing with the defence on a sentence of three years and three months to three years and nine months, in order to spare the women to have to make a public statement.
But due to contradictory statements of the defendant, the chairman now wants to question some of the victims.
On January 2, the court will hear the first victims.
http://i.imgur.com/ADicnz7.jpg
A PAKISTANI migrant who travelled across Europe to get to Germany has defended himself against five counts of sex assault by declaring “it’s hard to get a girlfriend if you are a refugee”.
Asif M, 26, appeared in Berlin Regional Court, where he read out a statement trying to explain the attacks.
The prosecution accuses him of having raped a young woman and committed five more sexual assaults. Asif M confirms most of the attacks between April 29 and July 25.
Prosecutors say he approached lone women in the street and told them it was his birthday.
When the women rejected him he pounced, it is alleged.
He pulled his first victim to the ground, kissed her, grabbed her chest.
The prosecution said: ”After he briefly let go of her and the witness tried to leave.
“The accused asked her to stay and undressed the witness, which she endured for fear of further violence.
"Then the accused performed unprotected vaginal sexual intercourse against the will of the witness."
Other women Asif M was said to have attacked, defended themselves and screamed, causing him to flee.
In Asif M’s statement, he apologised, saying he did not attack anyone on his journey through Europe.
It added: ”But in Germany, it somehow came out of me.
"It is hard to get a girlfriend if you are a refugee and have nothing to offer.
"I wanted to have sex."
He said he had drunk excessively before the attacks, included when he worked before the bar at a restaurant.
He also smoked a marijuana joint before the rape.
But he claims when he pulled the woman to the ground and had sex with her she “did not resist”.
However, the victim claims he apologised to her and said “are you mad at me?” after the incident.
For the defence, Ralph Schaefer told the judge: "I asked (Asif M) if there were exchanges of affection coming from witness J. He says no, she did not do anything. And that he did not realise his mistake until she said she did not like it."
At first, the court had considered agreeing with the defence on a sentence of three years and three months to three years and nine months, in order to spare the women to have to make a public statement.
But due to contradictory statements of the defendant, the chairman now wants to question some of the victims.
On January 2, the court will hear the first victims.