Need for help exploited?

Holzkirchner rejects allegations in court

Created: 11/28/2022, 9:54 am

A Holzkirchner is on trial at the Miesbach district court.

The 30-year-old is said to have brought a neighbor more than 3500 euros.

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Has a Holzkirchner (30) taken his needy neighbor to the bank to help - or to relieve the man of a four-digit amount of money?

The district court of Miesbach is dealing with this question.

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– A 30-year-old from Holzkirce has to answer in criminal proceedings before the district court of Miesbach.

The cook is said to have withdrawn money 26 times with his neighbor's EC card from a Holzkirchner bank's ATM, although the card had expressly only been given to him to pay for purchases.

From January to April 2022, amounts between 20 euros and several hundred euros were withdrawn from the account, sometimes up to five times a day.

A total of 3650 euros disappeared.

At the time of the crime, he and his neighbor were living in a homeless shelter, said the accused, who appeared in court without a defense attorney.

Since he saw that the stricken roommate was having trouble walking, he offered help.

At first he didn't accept his EC card, but paid in cash.

Then he accepted the card because the neighbor needed money from the bank.

Judge Walter Leitner asked whether the card had been handed over to him permanently.

The accused denied.

He always gave them back after the errands.

Debits at the machine were always accompanied by the neighbor.

He waited in the taxi in front of the bank, as did the subsequent purchases in a supermarket.

The neighbor always gave him the PIN over the phone.

Accused denies allegations - he offered help

Leitner was taken aback by the fact that the totals were only even numbers.

He mainly had to get cigarettes and alcohol in stock, said Holzkirchner.

For example, five to six packs of cigarettes at ten euros each or up to 25 bottles of wine.

In doing so, he tried to justify the amounts involved.

He paid around 130 euros per purchase.

From the judge's point of view, this did not seem credible.

Within three days, EUR 1,000 had disappeared from the account, and EUR 700 on another day, Leitner accused the accused.

He had an explanation ready.

A girl came to the neighbor's every month and stayed with him for a few days.

He probably needed larger sums for them.

The judge asked why he was reported when everything was fine.

The roommate constantly called the police and accused him of theft, he got the answer from the 30-year-old.

The police officers then asked him not to enter his room again.

But the roommate did not accept that.

He even knocked on his door at night to send him to the gas station for cigarettes.

He got "really angry" and threatened to "finish" him if he didn't feel it.

The same thing happened to an African roommate.

He also wanted to help and was then suspected of being a thief.

The suspect was visible on some of the bank's surveillance cameras.

He was partially identified by a distinctive emblem on his cap, a police officer said on the witness stand.

The roommate from Africa could be ruled out as the perpetrator.

The process is ongoing.

On the second day of the hearing, he and the injured party should be heard.

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