Overview
- The Landgericht Frankfurt sentenced a 23-year-old to six years and ten months for dangerous bodily harm and robbery.
- Prosecutors showed he and accomplices created fake dating profiles, sometimes posing as underage girls, to lure men to meetings before threatening and extorting them.
- The court documented six victims, including a 61-year-old who was detained for about 90 minutes, and described incidents where a pistol was held to a victim’s head and several hundred euros were taken in some cases.
- The court said the group counted on victims’ embarrassment to deter them from reporting the crimes to police.
- The verdict is not yet final, the defendant has been held in pretrial detention since summer 2025, and sentencing proceeded under heightened security after illicit courtroom filming that promoted donations for him.