The suspected mastermind behind the Ibiza video, Julian Hessenthaler, who was not legally sentenced to three and a half years in prison, was dismissed from court with a request for release.
Hessenthaler was convicted in March for cocaine trafficking and for accepting, passing on or possessing false or forged specially protected documents and forgery. The ruling is not yet final because Hessenthaler is taking action against it.
Lawyer suspects ‘sanctions for Ibiza video’
According to his lawyer Oliver Scherbaum, the request was rejected in a detention hearing on Wednesday because there was still a risk of escape and committing a crime. “Where this risk of absconding should lie, given the excessive detention already in place, is as incomprehensible from a realistic perspective as the allegation of a risk of recurrence, especially since the court has received corresponding commitments from companies to employ people. to take. Julian Hessenthaler,” Scherbaum criticized. From this one can see what sanctions Hessenthaler is still subject to, “which are probably not due to a drug trafficking of which he was wrongly accused, but to the making of the Ibiza video,” said the lawyer.
Incidentally, another drug case against Hessenthaler, based on an anonymous complaint, was dropped in July. The stance has now taken place “because there is no real reason for further prosecution,” it said in a statement from authorities at the time.
Source: Krone
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