Gloggnitzer’s ex-director (39) is being charged. According to the Public Prosecution Service, dangerous germs have grown in his ‘Kaymak’ cheese. The descriptions during the trial at the Wiener Neustadt Regional Court are disgusting.
“According to the witness, rats were killed, sometimes everything was covered in blood,” says the prosecutor in the LG Wiener Neustadt, while discussing the alleged conditions in the now closed Gloggnitz cheese factory.
Premature birth due to infection in the uterus
Listeria is said to have grown in the product “Kaymak”. The dangerous germ caused five deaths in Vienna between 2020 and 2022, and sickened six other people – including a baby who suffered from listeriosis when he was born in 2022. The girl was born seven weeks prematurely and survived life-threatening sepsis.
The accused ex-director pleaded not guilty during the trial. The Serbian always wants defects to be resolved quickly.
Long list of flaws, but no closure
Judge Birgit Borns confronts the 39-year-old with the hygienic deficiencies listed in the file: ‘There are no mosquito screens’, ‘There is no vermin-proof door’, ‘There is black mold on the walls’, ‘There is a stale, dull smell in the camp”, “There is a puddle in the ripening room”, “It was not opened during inspections.”
Adjourned for further witnesses
Listeria was already found in the drain of the small cheese factory in 2020. For lawyer Elmar Kresbach, the accusation is based on a very fragile construction: “The bridge between the blameless defendant and the sad events is incomprehensible. If it was so dangerous, why didn’t the authorities respond sooner?” In addition, several of those affected as witnesses no longer remember which kaymak they ate before they became ill. They bought the creamy product in the supermarket. Adjourned.
Source: Krone
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