Lisa case

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The Lisa case is a political issue arising from a missing person case in German-Russian circles in January 2016 in the context of the refugee crisis in Germany 2015/2016 , which led to intensive reporting, especially in the Russian media, and to diplomatic tensions between Germany and Russia .

Facts and investigations

The then 13-year-old Lisa F. from Berlin-Marzahn disappeared on January 11, 2016 on the way to school, the German-Russian parents reported her as missing. She reappeared the following day and initially reported that she had been abducted by three strangers, held in an apartment and raped . The alleged kidnappers are "southerners". When questioned further, she deviated from her first version, saying she went with the men willingly. Lisa F. described four different versions of her disappearance. Using the cellular data, the police reconstructed that Lisa was with a friend on the night in question. According to the prosecutor, she did not dare to go home because of school problems. Forensic medical examinations did not reveal any traces of rape. According to the family lawyer, she had bruises and was receiving “psychological care”.

While the alleged rape in January 2016 turned out to be a false assertion, the investigation also revealed that two men between the ages of 20 and 23 had had sexual contact with the girl in October 2015. These mutual contacts were punishable as Lisa was not 14 years old ( age of consent ) at the time. In February 2017 one of these suspects was charged with serious sexual abuse of children and the production of child pornography . He knew of the girl's minority and had distributed cell phone videos of the act. In June 2017 he was sentenced with a suspended sentence of 1 year and 9 months, slightly less than the 2 years required by the public prosecutor's office; the defense pleaded for a suspended sentence of up to a year and a half. Both sides waived an appeal after the verdict.

Reactions

The authorities, especially the Berlin Police , were criticized for their public relations work at home and abroad; among other things, they were accused of a " salami tactic ". The police spokesman said at the end of January 2016: "In that case, we were unable to communicate practically everything we knew because it would have massively violated the child's personal rights," which opened up "an awful lot of room for interpretation."

Reporting by Russian state media

The case was also reported by Russian state media, which, based on stories from the girl's aunt, uncritically claimed that allegedly refugees were the perpetrators of the alleged kidnapping and that the German investigative authorities denied the crime and did not pursue it. It emerged that Ivan Blagoy, a Russian journalist for the Russian state television broadcaster Pervy kanal , had brought the misrepresentation of the case as rape to the wider public. At the end of January 2016, the Berlin public prosecutor initiated proceedings against Blagoy for incitement to hatred, which were discontinued at the beginning of March 2016 due to insufficient suspicion. A lawyer from Konstanz accused him of falsely reporting on the situation in Germany and inciting Germans of Russian origin to hate asylum seekers. Blagoy told the state television broadcaster Russia Today that the allegations were unfounded. The lawyer who filed the complaint against Blagoy was temporarily under police protection for receiving death threats.

The coverage of the case is also seen in a series of so-called fake news . Andre Wolf, spokesman for Mimikama, sees in this regard that Russian state media also have an editorial line that is “nothing unusual” in the media. The difference “always lies in the expression and radicalism of such a line.” The Lisa case shows “here the tendencies in reporting, from which ultimately not a millimeter was deviated. At the same time, the (false) allegations of rape by the media continued to be upheld. "This is" of course dangerous if people rely on the content of this media and allow themselves to be radicalized. "

Demonstrations, political instrumentalization and diplomatic entanglements

A first account of the events of Lisa F. was also repeated by a cousin at a demonstration by the NPD . The Berlin branch of Pegida ( Bärgida ) also called for a demonstration. There was also an attack on a home for asylum seekers in Berlin-Marzahn. Later, parents and members of the family distanced themselves and said that they saw themselves as being instrumentalized by the Russian media and the Russian embassy as well as by "officials" and that, according to the German-Russian association Vision, they were "plaything in a political dispute".

On January 18, 2016, an unregistered demonstration of around 250 people in Berlin-Marzahn was broken up by the police. On January 23, 2016 there was a demonstration of around 700 German Russians in front of the Berlin Chancellery . There were further demonstrations in some cities in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The “International Convention of Russian Germans”, which observers saw as a right-wing extremist, had called for the demonstration, which had previously not appeared and, in his own words, was “nationally conservative”. The founder and chairman is Heinrich Groth , who is referred to by the media as “loyal to Putin” and “strict right” and is quoted in the right-wing populist Compact . According to his own statements, his organization lacks the basis. The compatriot of Germans from Russia , which belongs to the Association of Expellees , condemned the demonstrations. Its chairman, Waldemar Eisenbraun, warned of the danger that so-called late repatriates would increasingly come under general suspicion of being “right-wing” or “externally controlled”.

On January 26, 2016, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about the girl's case and accused the German authorities of covering up. The incident became a point of contention in German-Russian relations due to statements by the Russian Foreign Minister. He accused the German authorities of covering up a rape, which drew a sharp reaction from Germany.

The historian and director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Hubertus Knabe called for in the world , the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to better monitor Russian influence trials in Germany. Call attention to the "well-organized protests against the fictitious rape of a 13-year-old girl" to the disinformation campaigns of the Stasi . It is no "coincidence that hundreds of Russian Germans took to the streets in several German cities with posters that looked the same". Russia has " massively expanded the information war against the West," in which there is massive propaganda with often xenophobic and right-wing extremist orientation.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Sputnik: Berlin: Minors raped, police inactive. January 17, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017
  3. ^ Frank Herold: The Lisa case from Berlin-Marzahn, Russia's foreign minister, intensifies the uncertainty. In: Berliner Zeitung. January 26, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017.
  4. ^ Andreas Kopietz: From the rape lie to the diplomatic thunderstorm. In: Berliner Zeitung. January 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ Cell phone data reveals a lie: Lisa spent the night with a friend. n-tv.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b Public Prosecutor: Allegedly raped girl spent night with friend. Süddeutsche.de from January 29, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Andreas Kopietz: Alleged rape of a 13-year-old from Marzahn "She apparently got into the wrong circles". In: Berliner Zeitung. January 25, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ Katrin Bischoff: Russian-German girl: The Lisa case comes to court. In: Berliner Zeitung. dated February 28, 2017, accessed March 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ Lisa case ends on probation. 20th October 2017 .;
  10. ↑ a b Public prosecutor's office investigates Russian journalists. ( Memento from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Rbb Online. February 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ berliner-kurier.de: Case Lisa Sexual Abuse: Ismet S. on probation for almost two years (24) , June 20, 2017, accessed September 1, 2017
  12. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Lisa from Marzahn case, 24-year-old sentenced to almost two years probation , June 20, 2017; accessed on August 30, 2017
  13. ↑ New spokesman for the Berlin Police Police report from May 3, 2016, accessed on June 20, 2017.
  14. ↑ Proceedings discontinued. In: Berliner Morgenpost. March 20, 2016.
  15. ↑ What is fake news? tagesschau.de from December 12, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2017.
  16. ↑ Is fake news more on the right than on the left? n-tv.de from January 11, 2017, accessed on March 10, 2017.
  17. ^ Allegedly kidnapped 13-year-old Lisa case: These are the facts N-TV, January 27, 2016.
  18. ↑ The "Lisa Case" a year later. Was there something? Deutsche Welle dated January 11, 2017, accessed on March 3, 2017.
  19. ↑ Police dissolve a meeting against alleged rape. ( Memento of May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) rbb-online, accessed February 22, 2016.
  20. ^ Public prosecutor assumes "consensual sexual contact". In: Berliner Zeitung. January 25, 2016, accessed February 22, 2016.
  21. ↑ Germans from Russia demonstrate against "violence by foreigners"
  22. ↑ Alleged rape: The lousy game of right-wing Germans from Russia. In: Berliner Zeitung. dated January 25, 2016, accessed March 3, 2017.
  23. ↑ Germans from Russia prefer the Chancellery. ( Memento from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) rbb-online.de, message from January 23, corrected version from January 24, accessed January 30, 2016.
  24. ^ Christian Neef : Spätaussiedler from Russia - Putin's propagandist in Germany. In: Der Spiegel online from February 6, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2017.
  25. ↑ Viktor Funk: This is how the "Lisa case" became a political issue , Frankfurter Rundschau of January 28, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2017.
  26. ↑ Why the "Lisa Case" outraged Germans from Russia. tagesspiegel.de from February 18, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2017.
  27. ↑ see Lavrov press conference , Spiegel report
  28. ↑ spiegel.de
  29. ↑ Die Welt: They let in. And we are not given anything! Article about the influence of Russian media on Germans from Russia, January 31, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017.