- After the court commuted the sentence of the rapist, hundreds of people took to the streets of Basel, Switzerland.
- The judge said she commuted her sentence because the attack was “only” 11 minutes.
- The judge also said that the victim was not seriously injured but was just “playing with fire.”
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According to reports, hundreds of Swiss protesters took to the streets of Basel on Sunday after the court commuted the sentence of a rapist last month on the grounds that the sexual assault lasted only 11 minutes and the victim was not seriously injured. Swiss Information.
In February 2020, a woman was raped by a 33-year-old Portuguese man and his 17-year-old companion in an apartment in Basel, northwestern Switzerland, after going to a nightclub. The 33-year-old man was convicted of rape in August, and the teenager is still awaiting the Juvenile Court’s verdict.
The president of the court Liselotte Henz chose to reduce the sentence for rapists from four years and three months to three years.According to the Swiss media website, the defendant may be released as early as Wednesday 20 minutes.
According to a report from 20 Minuten, Hunts said that the victim had been “playing with fire” and sending out “certain signals.” According to media reports, Judge Hunts was referring to how the victim apparently had sex with another man in the nightclub before the attack.
In front of the Swiss Court of Appeals in Basel, protesters held up signs: “11 minutes is too much!”
The judge went on to say that the perpetrator was at “moderate” fault in this incident.
The reduction of sentence has been widely condemned.
Women’s strike BaselA feminist organization in Basel said: “The decision whether to use violence against a person’s will always depends on the perpetrator,” adding that “whether the rape lasts for 11 minutes or several hours” is “humiliation” and “violence”. “
Marcel Columbus, Deputy Chairman of the Basel Social Democratic Party, Tweet The prison sentence for rapists was short from the beginning, and the reduced prison time sent the wrong message to victims of sexual abuse.
“The four-year sentence is already very light, but now it is unbearable to imply that this woman colluded with people unrelated to the crime because of her behavior. For all victims of sexual violence, this is what a Good sign,” he wrote.
