NINE asylum seekers from the same family have gone on trial in Vienna for the New Year's Eve 2015 gang rape of a 28-year-old German teacher.

Prosecutors charge the Iraqi men with "abuse of a defenceless person and rape in a very humiliating and agonising way for the victim."

4 Suspect Sabah Al-J. arrives at the court house in cuffs Credit: Joerg Voelkerling/BILD

4 Police escort two more suspects to court to face trial for rape Credit: Joerg Voelkerling/BILD

One of the men is alleged to have taken a selfie' with the woman after her alleged ordeal.

At the opening of the trial on Tuesday the Austrian court heard how the woman was "blind drunk" when she went with the men to an apartment.

Most of them deny the charges but DNA proved that sperm from six of them was found in or on her body.

The court heard how the woman arrived in Vienna on December 28 2015 to spend the New Year with a female friend in the city.

Shortly before midnight on December 31 they wandered into the city centre to join the crowds celebrating the arrival of 2016 and at 2am were seen drinking in a bar-restaurant called Cactus.

At 3am the friend noticed she was no longer there and was told by another patron that the men she had been talking with had "taken her away."

The defendants, aged between 22 and 45, all arrived in Austria between May and December 2015 via the Balkan route.

At the time of the attack, five of them had cemented their right to stay, the applications of the other four were still pending.

Judge Petra Poschalko heard how the woman was taken by four of them to an apartment in Vienna's Rustenschacher Allee where five other men were waiting.

The woman later said she found herself naked on a double bed being assaulted by the men one after the other.

Evidence as heard that said she was assaulted in the dark so she could not identify the men, according to her lawyer Karina Fehringer.

After the alleged attacks, which went on for several hours, the victim needed in-patient treatment at a trauma clinic.

She is now under psychiatric care for post traumatic stress disorder.

She is said to have had another breakdown at the weekend and was too fragile to be in court to face her attackers.

Only one man, Mohamed Al-A., 31, admitted his role in the rapes and he sobbed in court and said he was "really drunk" on vodka at the time.

And he further admitted: "This act is a crime in Iraq."

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He was with co-defendants Nazar Al-J., Mohammed Al-T. und Alaa Al-J. in the Cactus bar who took the victim back to the apartment.

The other defendants - Hader Al-A., Mustafa Al-J., Nael Al-J., Marwan Al-J. und Sabah Al-J. - lay in wait for her there.

Medical experts testified she was raped multiple times and sodomised.

The victim said she yelled at them, in German: "No, I don't want this." Then in English: "Listen to me, just a little bit."

Her attackers are said to have only conversed only in Arabic.

After it was over Mohammed Al-. escorted her to a toilet in the flat where he took a selfie with her on his mobile phone.

4 Austrian police on duty over the New Year (stock) Credit: Getty Images

4 The alleged attack took place on New Year's Eve Credit: Getty Images

Later he and Alaa Al-J. escorted her to a nearby tram stop where they tried to stem her sobbing by saying in English: "Don't cry."

After she went to police a tracking app on her mobile phone led officers to the rape scene.

The app showed that her ordeal lasted from 4.20am to 6.20am on January 1 2016.

The court heard that with the exception of the man who confessed, none of the others feel guilty.

Several denied rape in the face of the DNA evidence.

One man claimed that the woman had been "offered" to them by relatives: another that she was a willing participant in whatever took place.

Judge Poaschalko seemed visibly angered at the shifts in their stories throughout Tuesday's hearing.

The court resumes again on Thursday and the defendants have been warned they face up to 15 years each in jail if convicted.