Robbery and Sexual Crimes - Bundestag Today Wants to Adopt Tougher Penalties for the Use of K.o.-Drips

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Dangerous and difficult to prove: perpetrators use K.-o.-drops to numb their victims and make them willless. How to protect themselves and why longer penalties, according to lawyers, are not enough.

RP Online

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In the future, sexual and predatory crimes using K.o.-drips will be punished harder. That's good, but the state must also ensure that perpetrators are convicted at all.

Frankfurter Allgemeine

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Anyone who secretly administers K.o. drops to rob or abuse them sexually must expect tougher penalties in the future. The Bundestag passed a corresponding law on Friday.

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The Bundestag wants to increase the penalty for the use of K.o.-Tropfen. In the future, perpetrators who use the substances for rape or robbery should receive a prison sentence of at least five years. To this end, K.o.-Tropfen in the criminal code should be listed as so-called "dangerous means" as at present weapons and certain tools.

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Again and again women are stunned with K.o.-drops and experience sexualized violence. The Bundestag wants to make tougher penalties today. However, from the point of view of the opposition, the law misses the core of the problem. By Felix Jakobs.