Reports of women being raped at knife-point are not uncommon, but machete-point?

It seems that the criminal use of machetes is becoming more and more common in Modern Multicultural Germany. Perhaps the country is now awash in the implements because they are increasingly needed to thin the large bamboo plantations in Lower Saxony. Or to harvest the sugar cane in North Rhine-Westphalia. Or to cut back the festoons of lianas that now choke the byways of Bavaria…

Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this report from Express.de on a woman who was raped at a campsite near Bonn:

Police reveal gruesome details: Rapist used a machete Bonn — The brutal rapist at Bonn Siegaue: Police are investigating at full speed and have just disclosed grisly details about the crime which took place at the meadow by the ferry landing during the night between Saturday and Sunday. The attacker used a machete The dark-skinned attacker carrying a machete was without a doubt a black African. He walked up to the couple’s tent and slashed it with his machete, massively threatening them both. There was definite mortal danger. The couple was in mortal danger The attacker, about 20 to 30 years old, demanded that the woman step out of the tent, and then he raped her. The armed man was so aggressive and brutal that the boyfriend of the victim did not dare to call the police with his cell phone until the rapist fled. The police assessed the 26-year-old man’s actions as “prudent”, and, in the light of the danger of the situation, appropriate. Not the first offense for the rapist? Although the police immediately deployed a helicopter with infrared camera, the rapist could not be discovered. Did he flee the scene in a car? The police dog found a trace, but then lost it again. Police spokesman Robert Scholten: “We have created a task force. We’ve published a facial composite sketch.” The attacker displayed such strong criminal energy that the police assume this was not “his first rape”. A first glimmer of hope: “We have serious witness testimony.” Victims are being looked after by the police The 23-year-old woman and the 26-year-old man are being temporarily looked after by the police; the young woman was brought to a clinic for an exam.

An afterword from the translator:

MY COMMENTARY on this [adjective expressing disgust] piece of journalism and lousy display of police and criminal investigation, where not even a police dog is able to do his job anymore: