Lithuania probes fake German troops rape claim

[Wireless News]

http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/HgsYL9zomecPsBco1U1k9g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/41e11b3ab08cb1bacc025b08c54a4dd47d15346c.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/lithuania-probes-fake-german-troops-rape-claim-191616639.html)Lithuanian prosecutors said Friday they had opened a probe into who was responsible for spreading false allegations of a rape committed by German troops freshly deployed to the Baltic NATO state. Police have described as fake an email sent this week to the speaker of parliament and national police claiming that German-speaking men in uniforms raped an underage girl near a barracks in central Lithuania. Several hundred German soldiers arrived this month as part of a multinational NATO battalion in Lithuania, one of four the alliance is providing on a rotational basis to eastern flank members to deter a militarily resurgent Russia.



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