Overview
- The Greens requested the special ‘Aktuelle Stunde’ debate focused on violence against women and networks of power abuse.
- Linke lawmaker Kathrin Gebel, 28, said through tears, “I was 17,” describing being lured alone to a former school employee’s apartment under a false pretext.
- Gebel urged wider public education, easier access to support for victims, and more consistent consequences for perpetrators, warning that many German cases are dropped.
- She referenced Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, citing a claim of three million files tied to Epstein’s network, and faulted Germany for lacking comparable probes, mentioning the absence of comment from Friedrich Merz.
- Session chair Omid Nouripour thanked those who enabled such testimony in parliament, and colleague Clara Bünger embraced Gebel after her remarks; no new investigations or policy steps were reported.