The Berlin public prosecutor’s office has charged a man with drugging and raping 14 women he targeted on dating platforms, allegedly filming the assaults. Authorities first identified the 68-year-old man in early 2025, after discovering him in the chat logs of another man investigated for similar crimes in Lower Saxony.
Investigators believe the Berlin suspect has assaulted at least 58 women, some still unidentified. One case involving 36 rapes of a single woman between 2010 and 2014 collapsed due to insufficient proof of force and a five-year statute of limitations on lesser charges.
The Berlin prosecution adds to a rapidly growing list of drug-assisted rape cases across Europe, following the landmark 2024 trial of Gisèle Pelicot against her former husband and dozens of other men in France. In Berlin alone, the latest charges mark the third case within a year linked to online groups where men share advise on drugging and raping women or share footage of such assaults.
