Two African males have appeared in court in Germany charged with two separate counts of rape against a Ukrainian teenage refugee who had arrived in the country just days prior following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Rachid B., 38, from Tunisia, and Nigerian Abdullahi A., 26, stood trial on Wednesday in Düsseldorf after allegedly raping the 18-year-old Ukrainian refugee in two separate incidents on the Oscar Wilde Hotel ship back on March 6.
It is understood that the suspects, who both hold Ukrainian citizenship, had also claimed asylum in Germany in the days prior to the attack after fleeing Ukraine to Germany via Poland, and were accommodated on the hotel ship alongside their victim.