Prosecutors say an American man has been charged with homicide and different offenses for attacking two ladies from the U.S. close to Neuschwanstein fortress in Germany in June and pushing them right into a ravine
ByThe Related Press
October 26, 2023, 5:31 AM
FILE – A view of the Pollat gorge with the Neuschwanstein fortress, in background in Schwangau, Germany, June 16, 2023. An American man has been charged with homicide and different offenses for attacking two ladies from the U.S. close to Neuschwanstein fortress in Germany in June and pushing them right into a ravine, fatally injuring certainly one of them, prosecutors mentioned Thursday Oct. 26, 2023. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa through AP, File)
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BERLIN — An American man has been charged with homicide and different offenses for attacking two ladies from the U.S. close to Neuschwanstein fortress in Germany in June and pushing them right into a ravine, fatally injuring certainly one of them, prosecutors mentioned Thursday.
The indictment in opposition to the 31-year-old suspect, whose title hasn’t been launched in step with German privateness guidelines, was filed on the state court docket in Kempten, which should resolve whether or not and when to ship the case to trial.
He faces prices of homicide, rape with deadly penalties, tried homicide and possession of kid pornography. Homicide prices carry a most sentence of life in jail in Germany.
The assault occurred on June 14 close to the Marienbruecke, a bridge over a gorge near the fortress that gives a well-known view of Neuschwanstein, certainly one of Germany’s most well-known vacationer sights.
Prosecutors say the suspect met the 2 feminine vacationers, ages 21 and 22, by probability on a climbing path and lured them off the path. They mentioned in an announcement that he apparently first compelled the youthful girl to the bottom and tried to undress her.
When the elder girl tried to assist her, a scuffle ensued and the suspect allegedly pushed her down a steep slope. She fell about 50 meters (165 ft) and sustained a head damage, bruises and grazes, however survived.
The suspect then allegedly strangled the youthful girl till she was unconscious and raped her, prosecutors mentioned, earlier than pushing her down the slope as nicely. She died.
Prosecutors mentioned they secured a laptop computer and cellphones from the suspect containing youngster sexual abuse materials.
Authorities say the ladies did not know the person earlier than they met close to Neuschwanstein. The suspect was arrested shortly after the assault.
Neuschwanstein, situated near the Austrian border, is essentially the most well-known of the castles constructed by King Ludwig II of Bavaria within the nineteenth century and is a magnet for vacationers from world wide.
