Harsher penalties for rapists? Lower Saxony’s justice minister sees “imbalance”. Criminal Code stipulates that rape should be punished with a minimum of two and a maximum of fifteen years in prison.
Kathrin Wahlmann considers the sentence for rape to be “unfair” compared to that for robbery. Criminal law is regulated by the federal government and therefore falls outside the area of state politics and therefore also that of the Minister of Justice of LowerSaxony.