Overview
- The Frankfurt public prosecutor filed charges following eight alleged attacks between November 2024 and July 2025.
- The indictment cites extortionate kidnapping, particularly serious robbery and extortion, robbery, and dangerous bodily harm.
- In seven cases, the accused allegedly posed as a young or underage woman on a dating platform to lure men to meetings.
- Victims were threatened with violence, four were forced to make ATM withdrawals, weapons were brandished in at least two encounters, and three men suffered injuries.
- Prosecutors say the group obtained a four-figure cash sum and two smartphones, and the 23-year-old has been in pre-trial detention since July.