The three friends do everything together: even crooked things.
Now the young trio was on trial for burglary.
Dachau - It is not the first time that the three friends from Indersdorf and Schwabhausen sit together before a judge.
Today they are 20, 18 and 17 years old.
Two have already been under youth arrest for a few weeks, and one has even been in custody for months.
Back then, in January 2019, they attacked a man on the street in Indersdorf, held him up, hit him and stole his iPhone.
With two of them, the judge also needed some time to read out the entries from the education register.
Now sat together again in the dock. Exactly a year ago they are said to have broken into a trailer at a youth club in Erdweg and stole a water pipe and tobacco. They are said to have sold this water pipe to a friend for 30 euros. As it turned out during the course of the trial, only two of the young people were involved in the theft, the other knew nothing about it. But there were three other allegations against him that had to be clarified in the jury meeting. Judge Daniel Dorner asked one question very often in the almost four-hour trial: Why do you do that? Why do you commit crimes again so shortly after your release from prison, why shortly after a hearing in which you have just escaped a juvenile sentence?
One of the defendants gave an answer during the trial: “You are young, have no job, shit on your head and are drunk.” Now, today, they are “really sorry about the matter, that was stupid, you don't do that”. But the reasons for the young people's behavior go deeper, as reports from juvenile justice and probation services showed: all three lacked male support in life. A person of respect, a role model. All three came to Germany as children or adolescents with their mothers from different parts of Eastern Europe. Language problems, difficult living conditions, domestic violence, the disproportionate responsibility that mothers passed on to their sons - teenage years were anything but easy for all three. "You take refuge in your peer groups," as the representative of the juvenile court assistance explained.This group has the strongest influence. Saying no to this when a momentum has developed is very difficult.
Like the night two of them got into the trailer. An act that both stood on trial and regretted. They apologized to the injured party and wanted to resolve the matter out of court. A witness said at the hearing: "You were so sensible and looked for the conversation." But with all the similarities that the defendants have, there are crucial differences. While two have a steady job, meet their legal requirements and, according to the juvenile court assistance, are “on a really good path”, this does not apply to the youngest. He does not meet any requirements, for his social training “he comes and goes when he wants,” wrote the Dachau bridge in its report.
"It is difficult for us - the central question here is: What should we impose?", Summarized Judge Dorner. In addition, the 20 year old was accused of three other offenses: fraud, possession of weapons and driving without a license. He admitted two of the cases and explained them - the thing with the stun gun and the hunting knife: Even before his arrest at the time, an acquaintance gave him the things, “I should keep them for him until he comes back to Germany”. At the time, the teen was living with a friend's family because it was difficult at home. When he was released from custody, his friend's mother asked him to fetch the things. On the way home, the police checked him and found the guns.
And the thing with the car: The now 20-year-old and a friend pushed his stepfather's unregistered car away from the house, “because a neighbor said it should go there”. The police came by chance, "my client panicked that something bad was going to happen again and drove the short distance back," said the Indersdorf's lawyer. And that without a driver's license. "Of course he knows how stupid that was," said the lawyer.
Juvenile court assistance and probation assistance confirmed that the 20-year-old had a positive social prognosis. He finally has a job that fulfills him, where he is valued. His chief's interim report, which the judge read, was full of praise. His probation officer also confirmed his impeccable behavior: "It's going well with his mother and stepfather, and he has a steady girlfriend." The youth justice department also confirmed that the middle friend in the group was developing well.
Actually, the public prosecutor's office and the judge went into the hearing “with the expectation that a prison sentence would be necessary, because those failing on probation don't actually get another chance to prove themselves”. But because of the good social prognosis, they sentenced the 20-year-old to a youth sentence of one year and six months on probation, and he also had to pay 1000 euros to the Dachau bridge. His 18-year-old friend has to pay 800 euros for the bridge and 200 euros for the water pipe. The youngest would be sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence.
