Overview

• Police report 33 sexual offenses at the halfway point, including three cases investigated as rape, a level consistent with recent years.
• Investigators are probing a rape reported near Theresienhöhe after a 21-year-old was dragged into bushes; a suspect description was released and the case is not counted in festival-area statistics.
• The ‘Sichere Wiesn’ center assisted 197 women and girls in the first week, up from 181 a year ago, with most cases involving safe travel home, locating companions, or recovering essentials.
• Six visitors sought help on suspicion of K.O.-drugging, with counselors facilitating lab testing and police noting extensive CCTV coverage to support investigations.
• Charlotte Kuffler, 20, filed a complaint alleging possible K.O.-drugging at her family’s Weinzelt, as counselors also report more foreign help-seekers, notably from the United States.