As of: February 29, 2024, 7:33 p.m
By: Nikolas Pelke
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Shock callers from Poland stole almost 250,000 euros from a 73-year-old.
The accused money courier does not want to reveal the names of those behind the crime before the Nuremberg regional court.
Nuremberg - After a shocking phone call, a 73-year-old senior woman from Eckental near Nuremberg in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district experienced a story worthy of a film.
On a Tuesday morning exactly two years ago, at eleven o'clock sharp, 73-year-old Brunhilde's (
name changed
) phone suddenly rang.
“I heard my son crying on the phone telling me that he had killed a politician’s daughter,” the older woman, a witness before the regional court, remembers the surprising shock call in March 2022.
The senior woman then remembers that “the son” passed the phone on to what was supposed to be a police officer.
In order to save her son from prison, the mother had to raise a deposit of 46,000 euros.
Senior woman starts odyssey through Franconia
“I immediately got in the car and drove to the bank.
I was as if remotely controlled.” She was not allowed to interrupt the line on the cell phone because a complete protocol had to be prepared.
Even when the cash was withdrawn from the bank, the shock callers were there live via cell phone.
The 49-year-old defendant from Poland admitted before the Nuremberg district court that he had received the 246,000 euros from the Franconian senior citizen after the shock call.
© Nikolas Pelke
“Then I drove to Fürth to hand over the cash to the local court,” says the senior citizen, describing the beginning of her little odyssey.
There she was informed that the angry father of the daughter who was supposedly killed in traffic was now demanding significantly more money, 300,000 euros.
“I don’t have that much,” the woman told the “officer” on the phone.
“Don’t you have any securities?” the fake police officer asked on the other end of the line.
“I was just thinking about my son”
Unfortunately, she thought of her demented sister's bank safe deposit box in the Langwasser district of Nuremberg.
On the advice of the bank, she had recently deposited 200,000 euros in the safe for her demented sister.
The financial advisor advised this step at the time given the threat of negative interest rates.
“So I drove to the savings bank in Nuremberg-Langwasser and got the money from the locker.” Then she drove to the Lorenzkirche to meet an alleged “assistant”.
He suddenly appeared at the car, sat in the passenger seat and personally received the 246,000 euros.
“I was just thinking about my son and wanted to get rid of all that cash quickly.”
Film-worthy ride ends at the police station in Erlangen
Shortly afterwards, she received the “relieving news” in the car that her son would be waiting for his mother at the district court in Erlangen.
“So I raced to Erlangen.” When there was no trace of the son there either, the woman began to feel evil.
“I finally went to the police in Erlangen,” says the victim, recalling the turbulent and fatal consequences of the shock call.
“Today I know that of course it wasn’t my son on the phone.
But back then in my head it was my son,” says the woman, describing her experiences.
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Of course, during the wild journey through the Franconian area between Fürth, Nuremberg and Erlangen, she occasionally had brief doubts about the authenticity of the story.
“But after I supposedly spoke to my son, I kept brushing them off.” She was also worried about the adult child, who had already been involved in an accident herself.
Defendant doesn't want to blow the whistle on those behind the crime
At the start of the trial at the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court, a 49-year-old Pole enters the courtroom.
He is said to be the money courier.
The defendant admits the allegations through his lawyer.
He got on the wrong track due to professional and personal bankruptcies.
In order to be able to pay off gambling debts, he accepted the offer of dubious businessmen to take on a courier trip across the border.
The single Pole was promised 5,000 zloty - the equivalent of around 1,000 euros - for the trip to Germany.
He did not want to provide any more information for fear of reprisals.
In the Nuremberg prison, fellow prisoners gave him clear warnings before the trial began not to reveal any details about the people behind it.
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Polish courier driver faces four-year prison sentence
Meanwhile, the prosecution and defense have already discussed an agreement behind closed doors.
In the end, the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court sentenced the defendant to four years in prison.
The defendant also has to return the 264,000 euros to the joy of the affected senior citizen.
However, the public prosecutor's office is certain that the gang with the still unknown people behind it ripped off numerous other older people in the most vile manner.
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