In Wessobrunn, a case of election fraud was apparently discovered shortly before the election on Sunday. As Mayor Helmut Dinter announced on Friday evening, "Kripo Weilheim has been investigating the case since Wednesday evening". The police couldn't find out anything on Friday evening.
Wessobrunn - According to Dinter, a citizen of the municipality who rents apartments to Polish workers, apparently out of anger over a dispute he had with the municipality years ago, "prohibited his tenants from voting for me, otherwise he wanted to throw them out of the apartment . And to be on the safe side, he apparently filled out the postal ballot papers himself, ”said Dinter. According to Dinter, there were searches in three apartments.
In the community, the police confiscated ten ballots that had already been handed in, which could be precisely identified based on the ballot number. "Five of the Poles are no longer living here, they are back in their homeland," said Dinter. They were questioned by the police and confirmed that they had not voted themselves. According to the mayor, a DNA comparison was also made.
Such cases of attempted fraud are common. In 2014, for example, an asparagus farmer from the Straubing-Bogen district had forged 400 ballot papers from harvest workers and was therefore on trial.