The Salzburg regional court believed the witnesses and did not legally sentence the operator of an après ski bar in Lungau to a suspended sentence on Thursday. Because he would have asked Corona-sick employees to wait.
The waiter, who was suffering from Covid at the time, confirmed on Thursday on the witness stand the allegations of the Salzburg public prosecutor’s office: his boss would have asked him around the turn of the year 2022, despite the disease still prevailing. register at that time in order to continue to serve the guests of the après ski hut Lungau.
“If we are quiet, it will disappear in a few days”
According to the charge under Article 178 of the Penal Code, he accepted the risk of spreading a communicable disease. “If we are quiet, it will be gone in a few days,” the restaurant owner is said to have told his employees. However, the defendant denied this at the beginning of the trial in mid-January: “We were closed for ten days after that anyway.”
Due to 15 cases of infection, there was even a public appeal from the Tamsweg district authority to those affected to check their health. The court believed the waiter and sentenced the restaurant manager to three months in prison. The verdict is not final.
Source: Krone
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