‘Santa’ drugs teen at Berlin Christmas market

A MAN dressed as Santa drugged a 15-year-old girl at a Berlin Christmas market — the latest such attack that has seen holiday revellers left either sickened or unconscious, police said.

At about 10pm on Saturday the suspect approached the girl and her friend at Berlin’s downtown Alexanderplatz Christmas market, offering both of them what he said was a shot of alcohol in a paper cup, police said.

One girl refused, but the other girl drank both of the shots. She soon started vomiting and had to be taken to the hospital, where she underwent a blood test, before being released. Police said it appeared she had been slipped some type of a date rape drug, but released no further details, citing the ongoing investigation.