A traffic control in Bregenz killed a 47-year-old Bulgarian. His driver’s license was fake. He had to answer for this on Tuesday at the regional court in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg.
You could almost say that adversity was accompanied by bad luck. Because not only that the suspect was driving around with a fake patch. Now the case also has a legal aftermath.
Counterfeit caught at traffic control
According to information provided to the Feldkirch court by the Bulgarian, who lives in the Bregenz region, he once obtained his driver’s license in Serbia and had it rewritten in Croatia for an administrative fee of 1,000 euros. When the suspect was caught at a traffic control in Bregenz at the end of April, the forgery came to light. The result: the rag was confiscated and the Bulgarian was charged with forging a specially protected document.
The suspect denies the allegations
At the trial, the man, who had a criminal record in Germany, pleaded not guilty to the allegations leveled against him. He had believed in good faith that the driver’s license was a genuine document. Which both Prosecutor Claudia Buss-Gerstgrasser and Judge Sabrina Tagwercher consider purely protective. “Investigations in Croatia have shown that the driver’s license belongs to someone else. Moreover, it must have seemed strange to you to pay a fee of 1,000 euros,” Ms. Rat clarifies.
The trial ended with a guilty verdict as charged and a fine of 960 euros.
Source: Krone
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