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Defendant G. with his lawyer in the courtroom: distance learning in "psychological counseling"?
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The judiciary already knew Marc G. by 38 different aliases, he was already a public prosecutor, doctor or pilot.
Now the district court of Düsseldorf has convicted Marc G. of a forged judge's ID, which identified him as a judge “Dr.
Robert Lindner «issued, condemned.
G. confessed to having produced the forged ID, said a court spokeswoman.
He also intended to use it.
According to the guilty verdict, the 33-year-old, who was only released from several years in prison this summer, has to go back to prison: the court sentenced him to a four-month sentence without parole.
Ten years ago, the conscientious secondary school student and temporary waiter was convicted for the first time.
In 2013, the district court found him guilty of 52 cases of fraud and misuse of titles.
Sometimes he appeared as "Count von Falkenstein", sometimes as a specialist "Dr.
Dr.
Petermeier ”, sometimes as a public prosecutor“ Tassilo von Hirsch ”.
Among other things, he had ordered a Porsche for himself and his girlfriend at the time, even though he was almost penniless.
He had tried to cover it up with a 6,000 euro pilot's uniform.
Reviewers described him as intelligent and "poor in conscience"
For the impostor, who last sat behind bars for more than three years, everything could have turned out much worse.
The public prosecutor had also charged him with serious fraud - and demanded a total of one year and ten months' imprisonment against him.
An engineer who had already been cheated by G. in the past had transferred him a total of 121,000 euros in several installments.
The engineer, a former customer of the father of G., who has now been convicted again, is said to have assumed that it was a loan that G. should have repaid.
When the process was already running, he transferred another 35,000 euros.
G. spent the money.
However, because he had already fallen into G. several times, there could be no more talk of deception and error, said the judge.
He knew who he was getting into and still gave him the money.
"It may be a huge mess what Mr G. did here, but from a criminal law perspective it is not fraud," said defense attorney Marc Françoise.
The court spokeswoman said that the donor had hoped for repayment.
"But hope is not just a delusion," she said.
G. was sentenced in 2016 by the Düsseldorf regional court to three years and nine months in prison.
At the time, the prosecutor and court criticized the fact that he had ordered a prostitute by plane from Berlin in order to then cheat her about wages and expenses as particularly reprehensible.
G. wrote letters to his victim
The donor has still given him the money since 2017.
"That was very naive of me," said this in the process.
Marc G. also did not sign a written loan agreement.
The 57-year-old said: "No one can be that bad." With the prison he must have got a "shot across the bow" and have finally changed.
While still in custody, he had written letters to his victim and promised him the repayment of the borrowed money: "I am sorry that I have lied to and cheated on you over the years."
The fact that the engineer actually referred was possibly also due to the fact that, according to the experts, the impostor is above average intelligent, but also selfish and “poor in conscience”.
In the meantime, G. claims to be living off his mother's inheritance - and is doing a distance learning course.
In "psychological counseling".
apr / dpa