In Berlin, refugees get classes on sexual consent

(AFP) In a classroom workshop, students watch a video of a man and woman meeting in a nightclub. The two drink, laugh, dance and kiss.

The tone in the room and on the screen quickly changes when the man takes the woman home, locks the door and, when she attempts to leave, he rapes her.

When the grim video ends, seven men in their thirties, refugees who have come to Berlin from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, are invited to react and comment.

“She has had too much to drink, they are sleeping together,” says one, convinced the man in the video took advantage of the young woman’s drunkenness to abuse her.

“He knew very well what he wanted,” says another.

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