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Relaxation place for many Berliners: the Teufelssee in Grunewald
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His first victim is 14 years old.
He pushes the girl off her bike, threatens her with a screwdriver, chokes her to the point of breathlessness, pulls her into Berlin's Grunewald forest and rapes her.
He taps his second victim on the shoulder three days later in Bernau, northeast of Berlin.
He grabs the 20-year-old, chokes her and pulls her into a bush.
He threatens his third victim, 23 years old, with a knife and rapes the woman near the Wannsee in Berlin.
He attacked his fourth victim, 18 years old, again six days later in Grunewald.
The young woman's screams and a camper who accidentally pitched his tent in the forest save her.
The attacker flees.
He overpowers his fifth victim, 27 years old, while jogging.
He picks up his sixth victim, 20, off his bike, his seventh victim, 20, is jogging through a forest when she is attacked and then raped.
Since this Wednesday, Sinisa K. has to answer for six rapes, one attempted rape, robbery and dangerous bodily harm before the Berlin district court.
Because one of his victims is a minor, a trial takes place in a youth chamber.
Serial rapist unsettled
An interpreter translates the indictment, which the public prosecutor presented on Wednesday in room 500 of the Berlin Regional Court, into Serbo-Croatian.
Sinisa K. is Serbian, 30 years old, single and trained electrical mechanic.
He does not have a permanent residence in Berlin.
Sinisa K. is said to have spent several years in prison for rape in Serbia.
His client admits the deeds, explains defense attorney Malte Greisner after reading out the indictment.
And he also says: "My client sincerely regrets the deeds."
"Is that correct, Mr. K.?" Asks the presiding judge.
"Yes," says the defendant.
He said nothing more about the charges on this first day of the trial.
But with his blanket confession, he may save the women a testimony in court.
The reports from a serial rapist had unsettled people in Berlin and Brandenburg in the summer of 2020.
Sinisa K. raped the young women within a good four weeks, mostly in southwest Berlin.
He attacked women in June and July, sometimes in the early morning, sometimes in the late evening, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon.
He threatened a woman in English that she would kill her if she spoke about the crime.
After the rape, he asked the 14-year-old girl to get him 2000 euros within ten days.
After the deed, he gave a jogger his bike and asked her to see her the next day.
Six of his victims are co-plaintiffs in the trial.
None of the six women is in the hall this Wednesday.
They are represented by their lawyers.
And if it is up to co-plaintiff Roland Weber, then Sinisa K. faces not only a prison sentence, but possibly also subsequent preventive detention.
"I assume that it is a highly dangerous serial offender," says attorney Weber outside the room.
"They are monstrous acts of tremendous brutality that are extremely rare." Sinisa K. had all of his victims "consistently and severely mentally injured".
The lawyer considers preventive detention to be appropriate.
"Here it is important to protect society from this person."
On the morning of July 14, 2020, a walker discovered Sinisa K's last victim shortly after the crime in a forest between Potsdam and Berlin.
The 20-year-old had choke marks on her neck, abrasions on her arms and knees and bruises on her shoulder.
The police started a large-scale search operation with a helicopter, a drone and dogs.
Sinisa K. was caught hours later.
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