Left-wing German politician Selin Gören has just admitted she lied to police and said she wasn’t raped to prevent the spread of racism against migrants.

Back in January, 24-year-old refugee activist Gören was attacked and raped and assaulted by three men while at a playground in the middle of the night, Der Spiegel reports. In her work as a refugee activist, Gören has visited a refugee camp in Iraq. She also is a national spokeswoman for a left-wing political group called Solid.

The reason the public is now hearing about this change of heart is because of Gören’s interview.

Immediately after the attack, she ran to the police to inform them she had been raped, but refused to divulge the ethnic identity of her attackers because of how badly migrants suffered in the aftermath of the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, where countless hundreds of migrants swarmed German women and abused them.

Her motive for not telling the police the truth about being raped was to prevent migrants from suffering even more racism, though she said she had mixed motives. She didn’t want the men to get away with what they had done, but she didn’t want so-called racists to use the story to increase their strength.

Instead, she claimed a mixed group of foreigners and locals attacked her. She said they spoke German, but in reality, the men were speaking either Kurdish or Farsi.

But just 12 hours after she was first assaulted, she went back to the police and came clean, spilling all the details about the men who raped her.

According to Gören, a friend persuaded her to tell the full truth of the incident.

She now believes people should never hide the truth for the purpose of political expediency.

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