Overview
- A 35-year-old man is accused of inappropriately touching four 14-year-old girls and one 15-year-old in a Munich hostel, including on a corridor and later in an elevator.
- Teachers accompanying a student group from Saarland intervened after the youths alerted them, and officers detained the suspect on site.
- Police charged the man with sexual harassment and transferred him to the Munich police detention facility to be presented to a magistrate who will rule on pretrial custody.
- Kommissariat 15 of the Munich police is leading the investigation and police say the suspect was recorded as having no fixed residence.
- The case has prompted questions about safety on school trips and in shared lodgings, and schools and hosts may now review supervision and accommodation arrangements.