During her vacation, a doctor from a good family donated her apartment to an Afghan man she knew from boxing classes. When the lawyer returned, the inherited jewelry, which also meant a lot to her emotionally, had been sold. The 31-year-old was tried in Landl.
“We were closely connected. Out of kindness and pity, I let him spend the night in my apartment when I flew on holiday,” says the elegant lawyer as a witness in the Vienna Landl about the man who now sits to her right as a defendant. The disappointment is written on her face. Then When the doctor returned from her autumn break to her house in a chic area of Vienna, she found the key to her safe under the bed while cleaning. “It’s usually in a gray box with a wooden lid on my bedside table.”
Beloved heirlooms from grandmother and father
A look inside the safe confirmed the emerging suspicion: the inherited jewelry – including the grandmother’s diamonds, the Chopin bracelet and the father’s watch – had disappeared. The 31-year-old Afghan stole it and sold it somewhere on Stephansplatz…
The lawyer met the man seven years ago while practicing martial arts. She knew he had money worries: ‘But he never asked me for money. I would definitely have lent him something,” the victim shakes his head incomprehensibly.
“He had 18 days to find the key”
“I knew nothing about the emotional value of the items,” the well-known defendant claims. He needed the money to treat his father, who suffered a stroke in Afghanistan. The safe remained open. “Why do I need a safe if I don’t lock it?”, answers the stolen hostess. “He had 18 days to find the key.”
12 months partial imprisonment
The client of lawyer Elmar Kresbach gets away with a lenient sentence of twelve months of partial imprisonment, three of which are a fixed sentence. Because the pre-trial detention is being taken into account, he will be released soon. The man wants to pay his former hostel owner 15,000 euros in damages.
Source: Krone
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