Overview
- In court the 30-year-old confessed to assaulting an unconscious woman in a Swiss mountain hut in 2022 and apologized, while rejecting prosecutors’ claim that he drugged her.
- He denies five other alleged rapes from 2015 to 2022 in the Hof district, Prignitz in Brandenburg, and the Ahr valley, asserting the encounters were consensual within his preference for dominant sex and citing ongoing contact afterward.
- His defense acknowledged he secretly recorded sexual acts with multiple women and uploaded the videos online, which he claims he did to gain access to a website that required user uploads.
- A 2022 home search uncovered 5,700 images and more than 400 videos with child sexual abuse content as well as ammunition and weapons subject to the War Weapons Control Act, which he admits possessing while arguing the files came as unintended bycatch and the ammunition from his time as a Bundeswehr instructor.
- Authorities detained him in Ukraine’s Sumy region in February and transferred him via Poland to Germany, where he remains in pretrial custody as the case proceeds with victims participating as co-plaintiffs.