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A visit to a bar resulted in expensive consequences in court for a man from Geretsried. © David-Wolfgang Ebener
A clear gesture in the pub ends up in court for a Geretsried man. The consequence: a high fine.
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– A visit to a bar had an expensive consequences in court for a man from Geretsried: The 32-year-old is said to have threatened a waiter with a clear gesture to kill him. The concrete worker was sentenced to a fine of 1,600 euros for threatening him.
Suddenly the person making the complaint was sitting in the dock
A curious thing about the story: The 32-year-old went to the police himself after the incident, which occurred on February 5th last year around two o'clock in front of a restaurant in the city center. He reported Keller because he had been beaten up. The case against the service employee, 31 years old and also living in Geretsried, was later dropped. Instead, the person making the complaint now sat in the dock. He asserted: “In this situation I am the victim and I want justice.”
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The defendant is said to have thrown a glass at the waiter
What happened? The accused came to a birthday party in the bar late that evening, had a few beers and left. A little later he returned in the car because he had forgotten his cell phone. He smashed a drinking glass in the bar. “Accidentally,” the defendant claimed. “He threw the glass at me,” the waiter objected. “That was the end of the party.” Shortly afterwards, the defendant had an argument with another man in front of the restaurant, the waiter reported in his witness statement. At some point the accused got into his car. “He looked at me and did that,” the witness explained, rubbing a finger across his neck. “I got scared.” This was a “classic statement versus statement situation,” explained the defense attorney. The whole story is “far too obscure” and his client should therefore be acquitted.
Judge Helmut Berger found the waiter's version to be credible and sentenced the Geretsrieder to a fine of 40 daily rates of 40 euros each. That was significantly less than the public prosecutor had requested (60 daily rates of 60 euros each, i.e. 3,600 euros). The judge said in his verdict that the black eye with which the defendant appeared to the police at the time was probably sustained during an argument with the ominous other man in the parking lot.
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