German police nab mugger who made victims strip

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police say they have arrested a man suspected of holding three teenagers at gun point in the street and demanding money before forcing two of them to strip naked and jump up and down on car bonnets.


The victims, two young men and a young woman, were confronted by the man as they walked home in a Berlin suburb in the early hours of Monday morning. He drew a gun and demanded money but they had no cash on them.


"The man then told the two men to strip naked and asked the girl to remove her shoes," a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday.


He forced the men to set fire to the clothes and shoes on the pavement then made them climb onto parked cars and jump up and down until they shattered the windscreens, she added.


Police were alerted but when they arrived the man had fled. A short while later he attacked another women in the area but ran off when she began to scream for help.


Police later arrested a 20-year-old German.