The defendant – reportedly a father of four – matched with a younger woman on a dating app and planned a meet-up at a hotel in Berlin, where she claims he raped her
A woman in Germany has accused a married man of raping her in front of 1,000 livestream viewers after she met him on a dating app.
Lawyer Nina, 31 – whose name has been changed to protect her identity – said she met the 46-year-old Bundeswehr officer, named in local reports as father-of-four Tim B., in May 2022.
According to local newspaper Bild, court documents from the trial at the Tiergarten District Court state the defendant frequented Berlin for work where he matched with a woman and planned to meet them at a hotel in the Mitte area of the city.
He is then alleged to have turned on a livestream and raped Nina while some 1,000 people watched online. The defendant denied the allegations, saying: “I have had a couple profile with my wife on the sex site for seven years. Everyone can do their own thing with us. But never without a condom!”
Tim B claims the woman, from Berlin, ‘undressed very quickly’ and was asked about her feelings towards the possibility of having sex live on the internet. He said: “She agreed, but held a pillow in front of her face. After 45 minutes she didn’t want to do it anymore”.
Yet the Army officer said he had done nothing wrong and that he “never raped her”. He also claimed that during peak time the livestream was broadcast to “100 men”.
According to the newspaper he said: “When she wanted to go home, I even gave her my intercity ticket. My name was on it. I wouldn’t have been so stupid if I had actually raped her beforehand.”
But prosecutors say around 1,000 people had access to the video recordings, and “the images were capable of causing significant damage to her reputation”.
The defendant is to appear in court on February 10 for a verdict hearing.