Police operation on DSDS juror
How will RTL deal with Pietro’s expulsion?
Updated 10/13/2024 – 8:47 p.mReading time: 6 min.
Almost a week has passed since the police operation. Pietro Lombardi has since gone into hiding and his fiancée has been seen again for the first time. And how does RTL react?
On Tuesday evening, shortly before 6 p.m., the “Bild” newspaper reported: “Police operation in the middle of the night: University clinic reports Pietro Lombardi!” Since the news, the former DSDS winner has dominated the headlines. It’s about domestic violence; the musician is said to have been violent towards his fiancée Laura Maria Rypa. The police are investigating – and RTL is pondering. Everything we know about the Lombardi case.
As the “Bild” newspaper reported, there is said to have been a “violent argument” between him and his fiancée in Pietro Lombardi’s Cologne villa on the night from Sunday to Monday. During the argument, the musician is said to have become violent, whereupon Laura Maria Rypa called the police.
Pietro Lombardi’s neighbors, Oliver Pocher and Alessandra Meyer-Wölden, witnessed the “huge police operation”. Several patrol cars drove up to the singer. “Something really must have happened,” said Sandy Meyer-Wölden in the podcast “The Pochers! Freshly Recycled”.
After the police operation, Laura Maria Rypa was taken to the Cologne University Hospital together with her seven-week-old son Amelio. A day later, the 28-year-old posted several pictures from the hospital on Instagram.
Pietro Lombardi is represented by the renowned law firm Schertz Bergmann. When asked by the “Bild” newspaper, lawyer Simon Bergmann confirmed the police operation, but explained: “Our client did not use violence against his fiancée on the night of October 7, 2024. There were differences of opinion that were associated with insults on both sides.”
As part of this “emotional argument” there was also “mutual touching, but not our client using violence against his fiancée”. “As far as the officers on site claim to have found any injuries such as pressure marks on our client’s fiancée’s body, these did not come from our client using force. Accordingly, our client did not injure his fiancée.”
The statement continues: “Since our client, as explained, did not use violence against his fiancée nor did he injure her, the allegation of domestic violence is emphatically rejected.” Further press inquiries from the newspaper remained unanswered. The law firm also did not respond to t-online’s request.
Initially it was said that the Cologne University Hospital had filed a complaint against Pietro Lombardi. However, as t-online confirmed, the police filed the complaint. According to Bergmann, the musician was also given a ten-day ban on contact. Pietro Lombardi is also no longer allowed to enter the house.
The ten-day period allows the victim to “take advantage of advice in peace and get support from a local help facility” or “apply to the family court and apply for a protection order,” as the police in North Rhine-Westphalia did writes on her website.
A few hours after the police operation became public, Pietro Lombardi and Laura Maria Rypa spoke out with a joint statement on Instagram: “Due to the current headlines, we now have to speak out. The press is trying to aggravate the conflict even more and often takes it for granted “We don’t want that to be the case with some of the statements, so we won’t give it a platform here and will act in the interests of our children so that the public is kept out of it.”
The message continues: “We understand that many have questions. We ask media representatives to refrain from asking further questions.” Since then, things have been quiet on both Instagram profiles.
After the police operation, Laura Maria Rypa was accommodated in the Cologne University Hospital together with her youngest son Amelio. She has now left the hospital again. The 28-year-old was recently seen with Amelio at an osteopath. It is not known where her son Leano is. Pietro Lombardi, on the other hand, is currently living with a friend, according to the “Bild” newspaper.