A teenage refugee who fled war-torn Ukraine and was allegedly raped by two men aboard a German hotel ship has now fled to Poland because she does not feel safe in Germany.
The 18-year-old girl was reportedly raped by one man after another while living on the ship-hotel Oscar Wilde in Düsseldorf, which is used to house people fleeing Ukraine.
The alleged attackers, aged 37 and 26, are from Iraq and Nigeria but also have Ukrainian citizenship, Bild reported.
Police have launched an investigation into the alleged March 6 attack and have arrested two men who remain in custody, Düsseldorf’s prosecutor’s office confirmed on Monday.
Another sexual assault in Düsseldorf was reported by a young Ukrainian who holds Ukrainian and Moroccan passports and who claimed he was raped by two men.
The alleged victim, who went to Germany to flee Ukraine, is housed in Messe Düsseldorf, an exhibition hall in the West German city.
An 18-year-old Ukrainian refugee allegedly raped by two men aboard a German hotel ship in Düsseldorf used to house people fleeing a Russian-led war has now fled to Poland because she does not feel safe. in Germany (pictured: Ukrainians queuing for mobile phone cards in front of the central station in Berlin)
Another sexual assault in Düsseldorf was reported by a young Ukrainian who holds Ukrainian and Moroccan passports and who claimed he was raped by two men. The alleged victim, who went to Germany to flee Ukraine, is housed in Messe Düsseldorf, an exhibition hall in the West German city (refugees are shown resting in a subway hall after fleeing Ukraine at the main train station in Berlin)
He reported that he received a drink from the alleged perpetrators in the exhibition hall, but remembers little for the rest of the evening.
A Ukrainian man said he woke up with “severe pain and injuries” in the genital area, and signs of sexual abuse were found on his body after being examined at the hospital.
The two men identified as suspects also reportedly hold Ukrainian and Moroccan passports.
In addition to paying guests, more than 25 refugees were on the hotel ship during the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman after fleeing Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine last month.
Since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, more than three million people, including more than a million children, have fled Ukraine for other European states, according to the UN.
Since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, more than three million people, including more than a million children, have fled Ukraine for other European states, according to the UN.
Almost entirely women and children make up the number who flee across Ukraine’s borders, and there is growing concern about how to protect the most vulnerable refugees from being targeted by traffickers or falling victim to other forms of exploitation.
This is at least the second alleged rape of a Ukrainian teenage refugee after a man was arrested in Poland last week on suspicion of assaulting a 19-year-old girl who was fleeing the conflict.
A 49-year-old man was detained in Wroclaw, Poland, on Thursday after he allegedly lured a girl with an offer of help over the Internet (people who have fled Ukraine are pictured relaxing in a temporary accommodation center in Korchow, Poland). )
People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine receive food from volunteers at a makeshift camp in Przemysl, Poland.
Almost entirely women and children make up the number of those who cross the Ukrainian border, and there is growing concern about how to protect the most vulnerable refugees from persecution by traffickers or other forms of exploitation (pictured: people fleeing Ukraine to a makeshift camp in Przemysl , Poland)
MP Andrea Lindholz told Bild that police should do more to “concretely protect Ukrainian women by checking housing” and warned that the alleged rape of Oscar Wilde means authorities must “act immediately.”
A police spokesman said: “Politicians must now make sure that such horrific cases of rape as on a hotel boat in Düsseldorf do not accumulate.”
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“Severe and swift punishment followed by deportation is the only language such criminals understand.”
A 49-year-old man was detained in Wroclaw, Poland on Thursday after he allegedly lured a young woman with an offer of help over the Internet.
The suspect could face up to 12 years in prison for a “violent crime,” authorities said. “He met a girl by offering his help through an internet portal.”
“She fled war-torn Ukraine, did not speak Polish. She trusted a man who promised to help and shelter her. Unfortunately, it all turned out to be a fraudulent manipulation.”
Another man in a refugee camp in Poland was overheard offering a job and a room to a 16-year-old girl before authorities intervened.
On the Polish border of Medyka, another case in a refugee camp raised suspicions when a man only offered help to women and children.
“Obviously all the refugees are women and children,” said Jung-a Gedini-Williams, head of UNHCR Global Communications, who visited the borders in Romania, Poland and Moldova.
“You have to be concerned about any potential risks of human trafficking as well as exploitation, sexual exploitation and abuse. These are the situations that people like traffickers try to take advantage of,” she said.
In countries across Europe, including the border countries of Romania, Poland, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia, individuals and volunteers welcome and offer help to those whose lives have been ravaged by the war.
Berlin police warned women and children in social media posts in Ukrainian and Russian not to accept offers of accommodation and urged them to report anything suspicious.
Tamara Barnett, director of operations for the Human Trafficking Foundation, a British charity that grew out of the All Party Parliamentary Caucus on Human Trafficking, said such a rapid mass movement of people could be a “recipe for disaster.”
“When you suddenly have a huge cohort of really vulnerable people who urgently need money and help,” she said. “This is a kind of breeding ground for exploitative situations and sexual exploitation.
“When I saw all these volunteers offering their homes, anxiety popped into my head.”
Madalina Mocan, committee director for ProTECT, an organization that brings together 21 anti-trafficking groups, said there are “already warning signs” when some refugees are offered asylum in exchange for services such as cleaning and babysitting, which could lead to operation.
“There will be attempts by traffickers to take victims across the border from Ukraine.
“Women and children are vulnerable, especially those without connections – families, friends, other support networks,” she said, adding that continued conflict would mean “more and more vulnerable people” would reach the borders.