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Gzuz in court (archive image): 180 daily rates of 2300 euros each
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The district court of Hamburg sentenced the rapper Gzuz to eight months and two weeks in prison in an appeals process.
The criminal court also imposed a fine of 180 daily rates of 2300 euros each, i.e. a total of 414,000 euros.
The court found the 33-year-old frontman of the hip-hop group 187 Strassenbande guilty of assault, a violation of the explosives law and two violations of the gun law.
The chamber punished the hardest that Gzuz had hit a woman in the face after she had asked the rapper for a selfie on the Reeperbahn in the morning.
For that alone he was sentenced to eight months in prison.
Gzuz's real name is Kristoffer Jonas Klauß.
Defense attorneys wanted a fine
With the verdict, which is not yet final, the chamber fell only slightly short of the demands of the public prosecutor, who had pleaded for ten months' imprisonment and 225 daily rates of 2,000 euros each - a total of 450,000 euros.
The musician's defense lawyers had spoken out in favor of a maximum of 80 daily rates of 350 euros each.
In September 2020, the district court in Hamburg sentenced Gzuz to 18 months in prison for violations of the weapons law, drug possession, attempted theft and bodily harm.
In addition, he should pay a fine of 300 daily rates of 1700 euros each – i.e. a total of 510,000 euros.
At the time, the magistrate said to Gzuz: “If not you, who should go to jail?” The musician had appealed the verdict.
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