{"id":321459,"date":"2017-05-22T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=321459"},"modified":"2017-05-22T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:40:06","slug":"ghanaian-asylum-seeker-charged-for-raping-woman-at-knifepoint-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/ghanaian-asylum-seeker-charged-for-raping-woman-at-knifepoint-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian asylum seeker charged for raping woman at knifepoint in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Ghanaian asylum seeker has been charged with raping a woman at knifepoint in front of her boyfriend days after learning he was going to be deported from Germany.<\/p>\n
Erik X. is accused of forcing his way into the tent of a couple camping in Siegaue nature reserve where the River Sieg flows into the Rhine, near Bonn in western Germany.<\/p>\n
Police say he threatened them with a tree saw, ordered them to hand over their valuables and then raped the 23-year-old woman, forcing her boyfriend to watch.<\/p>\n
The public prosecutor’s office has now officially charged the 31-year-old, whose full name has been withheld under Germany’s strict privacy laws, with aggravated rape and predatory blackmail.<\/p>\n