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Police urge calm after 鈥榝alse鈥 rape claim

Berlin police yesterday rejected a German-Russian teenager鈥檚 claim that she was kidnapped and raped by foreigners and urged calm in a social media storm involving far-right activists and Russian media.

The 13-year-old girl had gone missing in Berlin, reportedly on her way to school, on January 11. She subsequently returned and filed a police report, with her parents telling investigators she was kidnapped by three men at the railway station in eastern Berlin.

The girl described the men as coming from 鈥渟outhern countries,鈥 and said they drove her to an apartment where they raped and beat her, according to media reports.

The report has sparked outrage and allegations of an official cover-up.

However, police yesterday said 鈥渋nvestigations show there was neither a kidnapping nor a rape鈥, and called on people in a statement posted on Facebook to 鈥渉andle the issue sensitively in social networks.鈥


 

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