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A trial against Frank V. *, who played a central role in the scandal surrounding the model Gina-Lisa Lohfink in the summer of 2016, has started before the Tiergarten district court in Berlin.
The public prosecutor accuses V. of rape, bodily harm and coercion, as well as the illicit possession of narcotics.
According to the indictment that SPIEGEL has received, V. took off the condom while having sex with a prostitute against the woman's wishes.
When the woman ended the traffic abruptly, V. is said to have hit her on the back of the head.
According to the prosecution, he tried to prevent the woman from leaving the home.
You made it according to the information and filed a complaint.
Partial confession in court
The alleged acts are said to have happened on the night of November 9, 2017 in the man's Berlin apartment.
V.'s defender, the Berlin lawyer Urs Körner von Gustorf, did not want to comment on the allegations when asked.
According to SPIEGEL information from legal circles, V. made a partial confession in court.
He knew that the woman insisted on a condom, but he wanted to have sex without a condom.
At the same time, he denied coercion and bodily harm.
Originally, only one day of negotiations was planned for the process.
Because the alleged victim did not appear, another date was set for February 24, said court spokeswoman Lisa Jani.
"That day the judgment could be made."
A crucial question should be whether the court considers the secret removal of a condom to be rape.
Experts call such an act "stealthing".
The case law on this is not clear.
According to information from legal circles, V. is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Berlin.
It comes from a judgment in Georgia.
He was convicted of drug offenses there.
In 2012 Gina-Lisa Lohfink claimed that V. had sex with her against her will.
The prosecutor did not believe her and accused her of false suspicions.
The traffic was consensual.
Because Lohfink did not want to accept a penalty order, she was on trial in the summer of 2016.
The process met with a great response from the public.
A “No means No” campaign was launched, and the federal government subsequently tightened sex criminal law.
Lohfink, however, lost her trial, and the Berlin Court of Appeal finally confirmed a fine against her for false suspicion.
Frank V. was fined for making videos of sexual intercourse against Lohfink's will.
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