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Fler in court: In case of doubt, without the accused

2021-01-27T20:04:31.711Z


Rapper Fler storms out of the courtroom in a rage. His criminal process continues anyway - and thanks to an expert report, it allows remarkable insights into his life.


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Defendant Fler in the courtroom of the Berlin-Tiergarten District Court (on January 15): "I never wanted to beat him up"

Photo: Paul Zinken / dpa

Patrick Losensky tries first with an explanation.

Then he freaks out, gets up from the dock and leaves the courtroom.

What remains is a perplexed presiding judge who looks questioningly at Losensky's lawyer.

"He's gone now," said defense attorney Stefan König the obvious.

Losensky, better known by his rapper name Fler, was fed up with the first witness on this third day of the trial at the Berlin-Tiergarten district court.

The 38-year-old is charged with various insults, damage to property, attempted coercion and driving without a license.

"Just hit yourself in the face more"

The witness, 43, a reporter for the »Tagesspiegel«, reported in court that Losensky had "massively threatened him four times" in October 2019 after an article about the rappers Fler and Bushido.

After the text was published on the Internet, Losensky wanted to pay him a "home visit", but was in front of the wrong house.

The reporter says that for him it was "an attempt to intimidate."

He made the process public on Twitter.

Losensky responded with his own tweet: "Hit yourself in the face more for every cheeky tweet." Supplemented with a smiley that laughs tears.

Next Losensky called his colleague and told her that he would break the reporter's teeth and ambush him.

The reporter filed a complaint.

Losensky received a visit from the police, received a threat statement and sent the reporter the next message via SMS to his colleague: "Thank you for the police being here ... If the article isn't down tomorrow, you know what I'm doing.

All the best!"

The journalist said in court: "I felt very threatened and still am." He is sure that Losensky would attack him physically if the opportunity arises.


The defendant then gives his version of the story.

“I never meant to beat him up.

That is nonsense. «The journalist fails to recognize that Losensky does not act as Losensky on Twitter, but as Fler.

"I'm on Twitter as well as in my music."

How a rapper reacts

"He doesn't see that I'm an artist," says Losensky.

"He doesn't see that I'm a rapper who behaves like a rapper." He felt the journalist's text was an insult.

»From my point of view, his article against me was a diss track«, a public abuse that some rappers throw at each other in their songs.

Losensky says he reacted like a rapper reacted: he threatened.

All of this is part of the hip-hop business.

"That is not at all serious." If Losensky had stood in front of the right house at the time and the witness had come out: "We would have talked quite normally."

He thought the journalist knew how business was going.

“I assumed he knew as much about hip hop as I did.

That was my mistake. ”“ It's so absurd, ”comments the journalist - and the drama begins.

Losensky alias Fler sits up in the dock, looks angry, scoffs, "blatant journalist" and signals the witness to disappear.

"Go now!"

The witness leaves the room.

The public prosecutor gives an opinion.

Losensky invokes artistic freedom in order to ignore freedom of the press in the same breath.

The prosecutor also suggests that she doubts that he would have had "a completely normal conversation" with the witness on the doorstep.

In the hallway, he mocks the next reporter

Fler freaks out.

"What are you talking about, man?" He yells at the prosecutor.

"What nonsense!" "Herr Losensky," shouts the judge.

"Herr Losensky!" It doesn't help.

The defender suggests a short break.

Fler storms into the hallway - and mobbed the next reporter there, this time from SPIEGEL TV.

Defense attorneys and law enforcement officers try to reassure Fler.

The break is already over.

Fler is still on 180. He insists that the reporter leave the room.

"Either he disappears or I'll go." The court sees no reason to ask the journalist out.

A main public hearing is a main public hearing.

"Okay, then I'll go," says Fler, gets up - and goes.

The trial continues without the accused.

The defense and the public prosecutor have no objections.

At the request of the public prosecutor's office, the court reads excerpts from a medical-psychological report from 2019, which deals with Losensky's fitness to drive.

The report contains notable statements by the defendant about his life, the hip-hop scene and his freaks.

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Losensky told the psychologist about a difficult childhood and adolescence, the separation of his parents, his stay at home and his panic attacks.

The appraiser asks why he has been so aggressive in the past.

Losensky explains it with the hip-hop scene.

He was 18 years old when he met Bushido.

It was through him that he came to music.

He wanted to assert himself in the rap scene, a scene with its own rules.

"Only stress was recognized," he is quoted as saying.

"It's a lot about pose, and there are indeed criminal structures." He keeps away from these "criminal people from the milieu."

He always swore to himself: "I am not and will not be a serious offender." He knows about his problems, keeping his emotions under control.

"I'm choleric and quickly feel treated unfairly."

Outside the courtroom, Fler speaks on Twitter.

“There's no fair trial in this courtroom!” He tweeted.

He accuses the public prosecutor and the police of having him on the kieker.

"Fortunately, the judge is normal in the head!"

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Source: spiegel

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