[2] The perpetrator was a 31-year-old rejected asylum seeker from Ghana who, according to the German magazine Focus, had left his homeland after being accused of having killed his brother-in-law in an inheritance dispute a few years previously.
[5] He then illegally entered Germany, where he was arrested on 9 February 2017 in Kassel, Hesse and then quartered in the central housing facility of North Rhine-Westphalia in Sankt Augustin.
As Ghana is considered a safe country of origin, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees rejected his asylum application on 23 March 2017.
Since the prosecutor's office affirmed the criminal responsibility of the perpetrator, he had to stand trial from the end of September 2017 at the Bonn district court for rape and predatory extortion.
[9] The forensic investigations, failing to perceive feeling of shame and remorse on the part of the perpetrator, predicted a high risk of relapse.
The boyfriend had told the female police officer who answered the emergency call that his girlfriend was being raped by a "black man with a machete".
[1][10][11] At the beginning of June 2017, it was announced that the two police staffers who failed to send assistance in response to the emergency call were being forced to leave their posts.
[12] The Bonn police had previously acknowledged that the "receiving female officer did not classify the circumstances of the first call correctly and her language was inappropriate".
[18][19][20] When evidence was presented, including a positive DNA match, the defendant loudly protested, accused the court of using fabrications and insulted the victim as a "prostitute".