Teenage girl admits to fabricating refugee rape story in Germany
A 13-year old German-Russian girl who caused outrage after claiming kidnap and gang-rape by refugees has admitted that the account was made up, German police say.
The girl, named only as Lisa, was reported missing by her parents on January 11 in the capital, Berlin.
After some 30 hours, she reappeared with injuries on her face, and told her parents that she had been attacked by men of Middle Eastern or North African appearance.
The incident quickly spread on social media, sparking anger among the German-Russian community.
It almost put Germany and Russia in a diplomatic row, with Russian media criticizing German police for not acting promptly on the issue.
On Sunday, spokesman for the state prosecutor Martin Steltner said that three days after her story was out, she was questioned by police specialists and “immediately admitted that the story of the rape was not true.”
Apparently, the teenager’s school had contacted her parents over a school incident, and, fearing to face her parents, she had decided not to go home that day. She had spent the night with a friend.
Her mother told the German Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday that Lisa was “doing very badly” and was receiving treatment in a psychiatric ward.
Some 1.1 million refugees entered Germany in 2015 alone.
The government pledged to “measurably reduce” arrivals in 2016, but has refused to introduce a cap, saying it would be impossible to enforce it without closing German borders.
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