The men had lured the teenagers, 14 and 15, into an abandoned building before plying them with ecstasy and holding them at gunpoint.
The younger girl was assaulted so brutally she had bruises along her ribs while the other had her mouth covered as he raped her so she couldn’t call out for help during 15 hours of horrifying abuse.
‘She cried and prayed during this,’ the judge read from her victim statement.
The 32-year-old asylum seeker denied the allegations, saying he did not force the girls to take drugs and that the eldest girl consented to having sex, Austrian media reported.
‘We just wanted to have a little fun,’ he said, ‘we turned on music, danced, and talked.’
‘I’m only guilty of taking drugs and not knowing the girls were underage. They said they were 24 and 21.’
But he could not explain why the 15-year-old had strangulation marks, bruises and scratches and was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.
The girls had been celebrating the country’s national holiday in Keplerplatz (pictured), in the south of the capital, when the men encouraged them to get into a taxi
The 24-year-old man who was also on trial was acquitted of aiding and abetting the rape but sentenced to three months’ suspended prison sentence for sexual harassment, Kronen Zeitung reports.
A court heard how the teenage girls had been celebrating the country’s national holiday in Keplerplatz, in the south of the capital, last October when the men encouraged them to get into a taxi.
They had told the girls ‘come on, we’ll take you to a party’, before luring them to an illegally occupied ‘horror house’.
‘Once the girls got out, the defendants grabbed the older one and pulled her into the building,’ the Vienna public prosecutor’s office wrote in its indictment.
The girls testified that they were treated like objects by the men and were left with stomach-curling injuries.
‘He said, in essence, that no one could hear her and that he would kill her if she didn’t have sex with him,’ the court heard in regards to the elder girl.
‘The younger man held a gun to my temple,’ the 14-year-old said during her interrogation, with the pistol later being revealed to be a toy gun.
She then tried to get help as her friend was being attacked, calling the police to tell them that her friend had been raped at a party.
The violent pair of Algerian asylum seekers have been sentenced after two girls were drugged and horrifically raped in Austria (pictured:Â Vienna Regional Court)
However, the girl was unable to tell officers where she was and attempts to locate her and her friend were unsuccessful.
The girls were not able to get away from the abandoned house until the men fell asleep the next afternoon on October 26, at which point they fled.
The sleeping men were arrested shortly after.
Andreas Reichenbach, the lawyer for the 24-year-old defendant, told the court during the trial that the group had been at a party where ‘the two girls were just chilling.’
He added that his client ‘doesn’t speak a word of German’ and ‘the girls were already under the influence of drugs when they arrived’.
The older defendant said that on the night in question the girls ‘made TikTok videos, we smoked a little, I took cocaine. Then [the 15-year-old girl] wanted sex.’
This was the first time he admitted to having sexual intercourse with the child, Heute reported, something which DNA traces are said to have already proven.
He said he believed she had falsely accused him of rape because ‘I noticed that she was sad because I didn’t want a relationship with her’.
