Several sex offenders have been convicted in the Freiburg region in recent months. What happens to these perpetrators when they encounter a threatening hierarchy in prison?
Almost every week, sex offenders are sentenced to prison terms at the Freiburg Regional Court – in February, for example, a 47-year-old who abused two girls 101 times in a community in the Freiburg area, and a paramedic and youth trainer from the fire brigade from the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district, who passed on children. What happens to these perpetrators once the verdict is passed? What awaits them in prison?
In 2017, the rather slender, inconspicuous Catalin C., at that time still a suspect in custody, now a legally convicted murderer and rapist of Endinger jogger Carolin G., was maltreated by a group of fellow inmates with kicks and punches in the Freiburg correctional facility (JVA) and seriously injured. A chief inspector who was called to court as a witness in 2019 because of the attack recalled: “He had such massive bruises on his face that he was unrecognizable when comparing him to the man in the photo.”
Crime scene prison: sex murderer Catalin C. is said to have been severely beaten by “field murderers”.
In every prison there is a hierarchy among the inmates. Sex offenders like C…
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