Viennese Process for Twelve-Year-Old: Second Acquittal Becomes Final

The Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office will not appeal against this, Nina Bussek, spokeswoman for the authority, announced on Friday afternoon in response to an APA inquiry.

Thus, in the second case of an initially alleged rape of the underage girl, the corresponding accusations did not withstand a judicial review. A 16-year-old, who was also accused of having raped the underage girl, had already been acquitted of all charges against him last December. The sex between the then 15-year-old and the student was "completely consensual", the court found. There was no violence. For the teenager, it was "not recognizable" that the girl did not agree with this. The public prosecutor's office and the superior public prosecutor's office (OStA) - the case is reportable not least because of the sometimes heated media coverage - accepted this decision as well as the acquittal this week.

Protest Action by the Identitarians in Front of the Grey House

The legal representative of the affected girl and some high-circulation tabloid media, which continuously criticize the acquittals and partly mobilize against them, deal differently with this. The "Identitarian Movement Austria" (IBÖ), classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, also protested against the recent acquittal on Friday noon. Several IBÖ representatives distributed and left fake hundred-euro notes in front of the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters, demanding "flight home instead of acquittal" on the paper snippets. The 17-year-old originally comes from Syria, but is well integrated here, has an apprenticeship and speaks excellent German. The "Identitarians" did not get into the courthouse, security staff assured the APA. The action went off peacefully.

The case of the now 13-year-old girl caused immense media attention last year. Apart from the two legally completed proceedings, the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office is still investigating more than a dozen underage boys and a 19-year-old for serious sexual abuse of minors (§ 206 StGB), because they allegedly met the girl in Antonspark in Favoriten and subsequently repeatedly abused the minor.

(APA/Red)

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