In a shocking verdict that speaks volumes about the state of justice in Western Europe, a young American woman living in Germany has been convicted of manslaughter, receiving a two-year suspended sentence, for fatally stabbing a 64-year-old Eritrean migrant who sexually assaulted her in broad daylight.

The female sexual assault victim, identified as Fallyn B., was just 20 years old at the time of the attack. She was groped on an escalator by the migrant at Kaiserslautern Central Station, an area increasingly plagued by migrant-related crime, the German newspaper Die Zeit reported.

According to surveillance footage and eyewitness reports, the African migrant grabbed her buttocks without consent—an act the German court acknowledged was indeed criminal. He then followed her as she walked through the underpass to the train station and attempted to grope her again.

But when she defended herself, pulling a pocketknife during the altercation and delivering a single stab to his chest, which unfortunately for the attacker proved to be fatal, German authorities turned her from victim into perpetrator.

  • LovstuhagenOPM
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    6 days ago

    Yeah.

    At first, I thought, “Holy shit what are the Germans doing,” but when I read it I began to think about it from the broader perspective on what justifies using fatal weapons in self-defense, and what things should happen first…

    Personally, I think she should get off Scot-free because of the fact that women are all too often overpowered by men and victimized cruelly in the worst ways, but I understand the logic of wanting to have a higher criteria for the use of lethal force.

    The Germans are wrong here, IMO, but a closer look made me more sympathetic to their position. And the fact that the sentence was suspended is good.