It may be entertaining for outsiders, but for those directly involved it will probably be torture for a long time. There is another development in the Stefan Kuntz case. After a lawyer revealed new details to the “Stern” about the allegations against the ex-HSV sports director, who was dismissed at the end of last year, Kuntz’s lawyers are now defending themselves against it via the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
“The false accusations anonymously reported in Stern by a lawyer without naming her name” are “completely without substance and do not begin to constitute any criminal offense,” the newspaper quotes the lawyers Christian Schertz and Nicolas Nadolny, who represent Kuntz.
Former HSV boss Kuntz is accused of “inappropriate behavior”.
In “Stern”, the lawyer representing several HSV employees who had complained about Kuntz’s behavior accused the club’s former boss of “inappropriate behavior”. She reported “inappropriate touching, saying things (particularly about the breasts of one of the employees), sexual innuendos and vague requests for sexual acts.”
It was also reported that an employee in Kuntz’s office kitchen was put in an “unpleasant situation” and that Kuntz wanted to meet an employee in Mallorca for a gin and tonic. This episode seemed interesting because Kuntz had previously given a different version of the “Mallorca story” in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The employee wanted to meet him in Mallorca, but he ultimately refused this meeting, it was said.
Gin Tonic in Mallorca: “a completely harmless communication”?
As a reminder: Kuntz filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor against an unknown person for stalking on December 12th – shortly after the club was informed internally by employees about possible misconduct by Kuntz. In the course of the separation, Kuntz withdrew the complaint, but the public prosecutor’s office is still investigating because the accusation is a so-called official offense.
But back to the gin and tonic in Mallorca. According to their current report, the authors of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” were given access to the chat history between Kuntz and the employee through the HSV. Six pages were submitted to the newspaper as copies. The lawyer’s statements are now described as “very shortened”. In fact, “Kuntz’s entire chat with the woman was a completely harmless communication between two people who apparently got along quite well,” it is said.
Report: First Kuntz wanted to meet, then the HSV employee
They wrote “about the weather” and “about playing golf.” Kuntz asked twice whether they could meet and asked again. Later it was the employee “who suggested a specific bar one evening, the ‘Rocabeach’ near Palma – and now it is Kuntz who writes that he is already lying on the couch and would rather watch football.”
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According to these new details, nothing is ultimately clear. Instead, more and more questions are being raised, for example why an employee should exchange messages with Kuntz as if she were a good acquaintance when, three weeks later, she accuses him of cross-border behavior in several cases, including cases that are said to have occurred before the trip to Mallorca. Or the question of why Kuntz should have seen himself as a victim of stalking women when he suggested a meeting in Mallorca three times. And with that only one thing should be clear: that things will continue in this case.
