Teenage Girl Admits Making Up Migrant Rape Claim That Outraged Germany

The Guardian
Jan. 31, 2016

One girl recants her made-up story and The Guardian acts like it was the basis for the entire anti-refugee uproar. Note, this is apparently one of those articles you're not able to comment on. - ChrisA 13-year-old Russian-German girl has admitted making up a story about being kidnapped and raped by migrants in a case that triggered a furore in Germany and briefly embroiled Berlin police in a spat with the Kremlin, state prosecutors said.

The parents of the teenager, named only as Lisa, reported her missing on 11 January after she failed to appear at school in the Marzahn district of the capital. She reappeared 30 hours later with injuries on her face, and told her parents she had been attacked by men of Middle Eastern or north African appearance. News of the incident spread on social media, sparking outrage among Berlin’s Russian-German community.

But when she was questioned by trained specialists three days later “she immediately admitted that the story of the rape was not true”, said the spokesman for the state prosecutor, Martin Steltner.

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