Football ex-national goalkeeper
Chainsaw trial – Jens Lehmann sentenced to high fine
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Jens Lehmann in court on Friday
Source: dpa/Peter Kneffel
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The trial against Jens Lehmann because of a bizarre neighborhood dispute has ended. “With a chainsaw in their hands, heroes become legends,” said the prosecutor and called for a prison sentence. The judge did not comply with this. And yet it became clear.
Former national soccer goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been sentenced to a heavy fine. On Friday, the Starnberg district court imposed 210 daily rates of 2,000 euros each for damage to property, insults and attempted fraud.
In the trial over a bizarre neighborhood dispute and an incident with a chainsaw, the public prosecutor’s office had demanded a suspended prison sentence of ten months. In addition, according to the public prosecutor’s wishes, Lehmann should pay 216,000 euros to the state treasury. “With a chainsaw in their hands, heroes become legends,” prosecutor Stefan Kreutzer said on Friday.
The court did not comply with the demand for a suspended sentence in its verdict, but set the fine significantly higher at 420,000 euros. Lehmann presented himself “consistently as a victim of the justice system,” said judge Tanja Walter. He was “not a victim, he is a perpetrator” and had presented “outrageous stories” in his defense in court.
Lehmann was charged with criminal damage, insults and attempted fraud. At the center of the allegations against the 54-year-old was a neighborhood dispute. The public prosecutor accused him of breaking into his neighbor’s newly built garage with a chainsaw and sawing into a roof beam.
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Prosecutor Kreutzer emphasized that there is “no doubt” that the allegations against the 2006 World Cup hero are true. Lehmann wanted to “simply get one over on” his neighbor.
“This is extremely behaviorally disturbing”
Kreutzer also had no doubt that Lehmann did not want to pay the parking fees in a parking garage at the airport and therefore pretended to have something to do in the parking garage – and then drove bumper to bumper behind another car under the barrier. “This is highly behavioral,” said Kreutzer. “And all that for a few hundred euros – given your financial circumstances.”
Jens Lehmann comes to the district court with his lawyer Christoph Rückel
Source: dpa/Sven Hoppe
On the first day of the trial, Lehmann admitted to entering the garage with a chainsaw in his hand, but otherwise cited gaps in his memory and spoke of false suspicions and character assassination. Lehmann’s lawyer Christoph Rücker said in his plea: “The public prosecutor’s office is shooting sparrows with cannons.” He accused the public prosecutor of revenge and inadmissible “moralizing.”
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Lehmann suffers from a celebrity penalty and the charges are “peanuts”. “This courtroom is not a moral authority that has to educate a former national player.” He had demanded acquittal on charges of property damage and attempted fraud and a fine of 50 daily rates of less than 500 euros each for insulting police officers.
