Six men charged with serial rape in Køge over five days in May 2025
Six men with a foreign background are due to appear in Roskilde District Court on Friday, charged with taking turns to rape a woman over five days. The woman was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, cocaine and fear.
Six men before Roskilde court: charged with systematic rapes in Køge flat
Six men aged 23 to 50 are appearing on Friday in the dock at Roskilde District Court, charged with taking turns to rape the same woman over five days in May 2025. This emerges from the charge sheet, which B.T. has had access to.
According to the charges, the rapes took place between 8 and 13 May in a flat in Køge. Throughout the entire period, the woman was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, intoxicating substances – including cocaine – and fear, and was unable to leave the flat.
Two of the accused, aged 29 and 37 respectively, allegedly showed up at the flat in the first few days and ensured the supply of alcohol and substances that put the woman in a state where she was "significantly affected and weakened". According to the charges, the woman neither consented to nor voluntarily participated in the sexual acts. In several instances, she said directly no and indicated that she did not want it.
Towards the end of the period, the same two men took the initiative to give further men – including the other four accused – access to the flat, whilst the woman remained in a heavily intoxicated and weakened state. The prosecution assesses that she was at no point able to resist the acts or give genuine consent.
All six accused have a foreign background and are resident in Køge or on Copenhagen's western outskirts. Two of them are not Danish citizens, and for them the charge sheet contains a reservation about a claim for expulsion from Denmark.
Police additionally suspect that other persons participated in the rapes, but the identity of these accomplices has not yet been established. Initially, only the six known accused will be sought to be sentenced to imprisonment.
The charge sheet does not state why the woman was in the flat when the events occurred.
All six men have previously in the case been subject to a reporting ban, which makes it a criminal offence to publish names or other information that could identify them. As the case is being tried as a jury case, this suggests, according to B.T., that none of the accused intend to plead guilty.
Source: B.T.