As of: February 26, 2024, 11:00 a.m
By: Hans Moritz
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A sometimes bizarre trial ends with a conviction against a 52-year-old who likes to pick fights and argue with police officers (symbolic image).
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A sometimes bizarre trial against a 52-year-old who likes to pick fights and argue with police officers ends with a conviction.
Erding/Southern District – He used to be a police officer, knows the law – and yet he keeps colliding with the German legal system.
The Federal Central Register lists nine entries for the 52-year-old from the southern district.
So far there have been fines and suspended sentences.
Now the police officer who has been removed from duty has gone one step too far.
He received a prison sentence for the first time for several incidents in May and June 2022.
Thomas Bauer, judge at the Erding district court, sentenced him to one year without probation.
However, the judgment is not yet legally binding.
The judge's verdict was preceded by a trial that lasted seven hours and two days and was a real test of nerves for everyone involved - except the defendant.
The 52-year-old, who was already active in the Left Party and was active in the trade union, peppered the court with never-ending monologues and tried to involve witnesses in extensive debates (we reported).
What prosecutor Magdalena Schmitt accused him of wasn't all that serious.
He was accused of feigning a crime, insult, attempted grievous bodily harm, coercion and breach of confidentiality of the spoken word.
For a long time the question hung over the hearing as to whether the defendant was completely sane.
What happened?
In May 2022, the qualified teacher, who now receives community benefit, placed a knife on the bed of a man who lived on the defendant and his father's dilapidated farm, which he had previously moved from the house into the garage without asking.
According to the court, he wanted to provoke his roommate to confront him with the knife and the 52-year-old could derive a threat from this.
In June, he tried to stop a neighbor from mowing the lawn in the yard, even though his 90-year-old father had asked him to.
The defendant was bothered by the fact that his dog was left on a leash elsewhere without asking.
On the second day of the trial, a cell phone video was played.
He then insulted his own father in the worst possible way, calling him a Nazi and even accusing him of killing one of his children.
He also got into a fight with his neighbor.
He ignored the fact that none of the older men wanted to be filmed.
Finally he called the police himself.
The 52-year-old then hindered their work so much that the officers took him to the station.
However, he disliked the treatment there, so he went back there the next day to complain.
The situation escalated in the security gate at the station: During the course of the argument, the defendant threw a clipboard in the direction of the officers and uttered wild curses.
On the first day of the trial, the Landshut regional forensic doctor Dr.
Hubert Näger did not attest to the man's fundamental lack of control skills.
This can only be observed when the man comes into contact with police officers, possibly a trauma caused by his life.
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On the second day of the trial, the defendant tried to reach a compromise.
“This would require a full confession.
The court must recognize remorse,” Judge Bauer told him.
But that didn't come from the former police officer's lips.
He then fought to avoid being sentenced to prison.
Six months of probation were enough, he said, and he was also prepared to pay a fine or do social work.
But he didn't get away with it with public prosecutor Schmitt.
Regarding the videos on his cell phone, she said: “I am shocked.” She also recalled that she was dealing with a criminal who had been convicted several times and was on open probation at the time of the most recent crimes.
Since 2007, the father of a daughter with whom he has little contact has been convicted nine times, including for animal cruelty, bodily harm, threats and drunk driving.
In her plea, the public prosecutor considered all charges to be met and demanded a prison sentence of one year and six months.
Public defender Georg Els pleaded for acquittal on three of the four charges.
His client felt threatened with a knife by his roommate.
And as for the riots at the station, “not even the officers perceived the situation as that threatening.”
In itself, only the insult remains.
Els did not demand a sentence.
Judge Bauer imposed one year in prison.
Probation is no longer possible and the social prognosis is anything but favorable.
He also discussed open probation.
However, it is quite possible that the ex-police officer will now go to the district court.