Overview
- The case opened at the Hamburg Regional Court’s youth chamber, where the judge flagged possible closed sessions and the defense said the accused plans to testify at a later hearing with dates set through September.
- Prosecutors charge the man with manslaughter linked to giving his partner a powerful opioid, plus multiple counts of dangerous bodily harm, drug crimes, and an alleged rape of an incapacitated teenager.
- Investigators say he twice injected his then‑girlfriend with morphine weeks apart, first triggering a severe breathing crisis and later causing respiratory failure that led to death by aspiration.
- One 16-year-old, according to the indictment, was drugged and then raped while unable to resist, and she was later injected several more times, including an episode that left her unconscious and required emergency care.
- A second 16-year-old was allegedly given ketamine and later morphine, went into cardiac and respiratory arrest, was revived by responders, and the suspect was arrested about a week after that incident.