• Bonifratz@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    According to German news sources he didn’t throw them off the bridge but led them to a more secluded path in the vicinity where he attacked them and pushed them off the cliff.

  • mizmoose@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is disturbing by itself, but the article putting sexual assault in quotes makes it all that much worse.

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      1 year ago

      They can’t say it is sexual assault, until the person has been conficted. So they put it in quotes to indicate that is has been alleged by someone else

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        1 year ago

        One might wonder then why the throwing woman and friend into ravine part isn’t also in cover-your-ass quotes.