“I’ve been on this career for 40 years. “It has hardly ever occurred to me {that a} trial lasted so lengthy and there was such bias within the media,” the choose mentioned. The six-year course of was as a result of corona pandemic but in addition a “failure of justice”. Decide Susanne Hemmerich: “I’m delighted that two 13-year-old daughters are frequently confronted with stories of their dad and mom preventing for six years. From a human standpoint, that is incomprehensible.”
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Boateng and his protection attorneys and the general public prosecutor accepted the provide to talk out within the choose’s chambers. Decide Hemmerich invited them to attend, saying that they had an answer “that each events can stay with.”
OÖN sports activities director Christoph Zöpfl with data from Munich:
The events didn’t settle for the court docket’s suggestion to finish the trial with a wonderful if the defendant confessed. The quantity of the wonderful was not mentioned.
Nearly half an hour monologue
Because the listening to continued, Jerome Boateng made a protracted assertion, which he learn from a number of papers. He described himself intimately within the position of the sufferer. “It isn’t me that I am not in management. Ms S. is the aggressive half,” mentioned the 35-year-old. His ex-partner can be “his life hell.” She bodily assaulted him a number of occasions. “I do not disrespect ladies and I do not put my teammates beneath strain. I am a standard particular person with strengths and weaknesses,” Boateng mentioned in his practically half-hour monologue. The third version of an unlucky mud battle has now begun in court docket.
The ladies lie and ask for cash
On the finish of the primary day of the trial, Ms.’s lawyer mentioned. S., co-plaintiff: “A number of mud was thrown at my consumer. The media will now unfold this extensively.” This defensive technique can be predictable. That is at all times the case with home violence. The ladies lie and ask for cash. On the finish it will get loud once more within the assembly room. The events accuse one another of dragging out the method.
At 12:31 am Decide Hemmerich concludes the primary day of the trial. Boateng’s trial is scheduled for July 19. There must be one other 5 days of negotiations.
This text was up to date at 1:43 pm
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