Siegfried Mauser has to be behind bars. The Federal Court of Justice had rejected the revision against the ex-rector of the Munich University of Music. But he did not show up for detention.
Update from February 14 : The ex-president of the Munich Conservatory , convicted of sexual coercion , Siegfried Mauser , has not started his detention. As a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Munich said, Mauser should have been present at the Landsberg correctional facility on January 13.
He is currently abroad, the prosecutor said. The authority did not want to say whether the 65-year-old was being searched for. No information has been given on speculations that Mauser is currently in Austria .
Munich: Because of attacks - music professor has to go to prison
First report from October 10 , 2019:
Munich - So it is clear: The judgment of the regional court, which Mauser had convicted in May 2018 for three cases of sexual assault, remains. Accordingly, Mauser has to go to prison for two years and nine months.
According to the verdict, he encountered a singer during a job interview in his office in 2007, 2009 and 2013, lying on her or holding her tightly and, despite protests and opposition, carried out sexual acts on her.
Another musician accuses Mauser of rape - according to the BGH, the accusation is not confirmed
Another musician had also accused Mauser of rape. According to the BGH, this allegation was not confirmed. Nevertheless: Due to the decision of the judge from Karlsruhe, Mauser now loses everything - his freedom, his reputation and also his pension claims. "He is very bad," says his defense lawyer Alexander Stevens. "I am shocked by the BGH's confirmation of judgment, since this ultimately means that you can go to jail for just a little bit three years in an act up to 15 years ago."
The music academy, on the other hand, commented: "With today's decision of the BGH it is clear again: Siegfried Mauser has made himself punishable" and "caused great suffering to several women. At this point we would like to apologize to those affected, ”said President Professor Bernd Redmann. "Something like this must not be repeated at our university."
After conviction for sexual assault in May 2018, the former director of the Munich University of Music Siegfried Mauser presented his view of things in the tz interview *.
An opera singer from the State Theater in Nuremberg is said to have raped several singing students. Now the trial against him has started.
* tz.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
