As of: March 7, 2024, 4:48 p.m
By: Lisa Metzger
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A former football coach in the Munich district abused hundreds of young people over the years.
The Munich regional court has now convicted him - there is no demand from the public prosecutor.
Munich – The verdict has now been reached in the case of the former youth soccer coach from Munich, who had to answer in court for hundreds of counts of abuse.
The 47-year-old is accused of hundreds of sexual assaults and abuses against young people, including 153 counts of rape.
The former coach admitted these actions in court in January.
The Munich I Regional Court has now sentenced the man to seven and a half years in prison.
The trainer accused of sexual abuse stands in the courtroom in front of his lawyer Peter Guttmann.
© Britta Schultejans/dpa
Verdict: many years in prison, but no subsequent preventive detention
Contrary to what the public prosecutor's office requested, the court did not impose subsequent preventive detention against the 47-year-old.
The reason: The court did not see the offense as sexual abuse of those under protection - also unlike the public prosecutor's office - because the victims were not entrusted to the defendant "to monitor their lifestyle".
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Court sees actions as “absolute borderline cases”
The public prosecutor's office had charged more than 800 cases of abuse and sexual assault.
In 488 cases, the court classified the acts as sexual assaults, not abuse of those under protection.
The court assessed the acts that took place in the training camp, for example, as “absolute borderline cases”.
The former head coach and head of a club in the Munich district had admitted that he had sexually assaulted the teenagers during alleged physiotherapeutic treatments and had also raped them in numerous cases.
According to the public prosecutor's office, he always followed a consistent pattern: on a massage table in the football club's dressing room, at the training camp or in his house, he performed sexual acts on the young footballers and stated that this served to improve blood circulation in the muscles.
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