The police found the alleged perpetrator after raping a woman on Friday night. As the public prosecutor’s office in Basel-Stadt writes in a message, it is a 19-year-old man from Afghanistan.
The compulsory measures court ordered the suspect on remand. The criminal investigation department of the public prosecutor’s office is investigating the exact circumstances and the course of the crime, which have not yet been clarified.
The woman was approached on October 29 in the pedestrian underpass at Lohnweg and raped. The victim had previously been dancing at a nearby club.
The criminal police were able to identify the young man based on clues, as the public prosecutor continues to write. An evaluation of the contact data collected in the context of Covid-19 protective measures did not take place. (noo)