The crime happened on 14 October this year. The young woman was given a drink in a Freiburg discotheque by a man who may have used drugs. After she had drunk it, the offender dragged out his victim in nearby bushes. Then at least seven other men raped the defenseless woman.
According to the Bild newspaper, up to 15 people could have raped the victim. The presumed culprit, a 21-year-old Syrian, had sold Ecstasy to the young woman before the sexual offense. He had already been wanted by police before this latest vile act.
The investigations of a criminal investigation team, specially assembled, led to eight arrests in the past two weeks. The seven Syrians were arrested in asylum accommodations. The suspects aged 19 to 29 are almost all known to the police. They are now in custody.
The Freiburg Mayor Martin Horn said he was dismayed by the act. At the same time he warned the Stuttgarter Nachrichten against blaming “refugees” for such crimes. Most of the migrants in Germany are law-abiding, he said.
Freiburg “should be made safer”. Horn has ordered higher police presence and better lighting on roads and paths.
But not only the policing, but also the housing of unemployed non-EU foreigners is costing the German Federal Republic several billion euros annually.
It emerged from a response by the Federal Government to a request by AfD member of parliament Harald Weyel, that jobseekers from non-EU countries incurred “payment claims for housing and heating costs amounting to 3.69 billion” last year.
These figures did not appear separately in any statistics stating the real costs of foreigners in Germany. “In other words, while the taxpayer gets a total amount of accommodation and heating costs from regular beneficiaries, he does not know who this money will be spent on.”
Ultimately, the nearly four billion euros spent on living and heating money for non-EU foreigners is but a “fraction” of the total costs of immigration.
For example, last year alone the federal government spent “almost 21 billion on refugee and migration costs”. Added to this would be the costs of the states and municipalities. “By contrast, the defense budget in 2017 was just 37 billion euros” says Weyel.