A court has already dealt with the allegations of violence made by Jérôme Boateng’s ex-girlfriend against the football world champion three times. Now the trial is moving into the next round. Day 3 of the trial in Munich in the ticker protocol.
1:47 p.m.: Finally, she tells the expert that he may be needed longer than planned – the man nods. “Please stay healthy,” says the judge and asks everyone to “think again about whether we can come to an agreement ahead of time. This is not going to be any easier for anyone. Think about it, I am available for phone calls at any time.” Then she closes the meeting – it continues on Friday, July 5th.
1:44 p.m.: The question of whether the named Munich police officer, against whom a disciplinary complaint was or is still pending, can be questioned has yet to be clarified – otherwise he will also be summoned. The addresses of the witnesses will then be compared.
1:40 p.m.: July 26 is set, then August 12 is set, both at 10 a.m. Shirin S. will be coming next week as announced. A week later, on July 12, further witnesses who were brought in today will be questioned. This concerns various witnesses for various events that the defense brought in today.
1:37 p.m.: “I will take the case to the bitter end. But to do that we have to make further appointments,” says Judge Hemmerich, stressing that she had warned urgently against this. Her renewed attempt to make July 26th the date is initially rejected, but Hemmerich presses further. “We will manage it somehow,” says the lawyer for the co-plaintiff, who then wants to send a colleague.
1:33 p.m.: Hemmerich asks whether family law attorney Wali-Bergmann can come alone. Lüdke is not interested in that. “But I can’t interrupt the hearing for three weeks, I’ve even withdrawn my early retirement,” says the judge and offers to “fit everything into July 12. But I have to schedule several appointments just to be on the safe side. And then there are school holidays in Berlin, where most of the witnesses come from, so there’s nothing I can do about that.”
1:29 p.m.: Now it’s a question of what to do next. The judge suggests only questioning Shirin S., “since her questioning hasn’t even gotten through to the public prosecutor.” Now there are further appointments, but the co-plaintiff’s lawyer is on vacation for three weeks starting July 22. Difficult.
1:27 p.m.: Now the co-plaintiff asks about the witness Christian M., who, according to the verdict, seemed increasingly agitated during the course of his testimony and often looked to Boateng for help. “That was the chamber’s impression, other chambers may see it differently,” says Forstner. Then there are no more questions for Forstner, who is now released. “I wish everyone a nice weekend,” he says and then leaves the courtroom.
1:24 p.m.: Now Walischewski asks about the topic of kickboxing. “It was mentioned that Shirin S. had practiced it once, but not anymore at the time of the incident, so gross,” says Forstner. The lawyer wants to use this to accuse Shirin S. of lying because she said at the time that she had no longer done kickboxing, but last week she claimed otherwise.
1:21 p.m.: After the relevant note was found, Walischewski asked why Forstner did not include an expert opinion that recommended taking the family law situation into account. “We did not have it in detail,” he said – and they simply did not seem relevant to him.
1:17 p.m.: Forstner says that “the defense has repeatedly tried to bring in family court proceedings.” His chamber, however, “successfully, er, unsuccessfully, resisted this.” Defense attorney Walischewski asks why and is then asked to provide Forstner’s decision from the trial. But that must be found first.
1:14 p.m.: Now it’s back to the lantern. Fell over, kicked over or thrown – this question is still being discussed in court today. In his verdict, Forstner declared it to be an accident and fallen over – something that has rarely been said in this trial so far. He can’t say much about the condition of the cooler bag. “The higher regional court said that we should have had more information – we didn’t,” he says. But the bag was rather soft “with a few cans or bottles in it.”
1:11 p.m.: Hemmerich wants to know whether it was discussed in his proceedings why the incident from July was not reported until October 2018. “It was discussed, but no reason was given,” Forstner replies. He is also unaware that a family court case could have been the cause, “because they happened all the time.”
1:08 p.m.: Christian M. stated that he had left after the incident with the lantern, “which we classified as an accident,” as Forstner says. The judge describes the further events based on the statements of Vanessa W. and Shirin S. – they correspond to their statements from last week.
1:05 p.m.: Hemmerich says she is particularly interested in the statement of Christian M., “who is now out of the proceedings.” The first controversy concerns Christian M.’s presence at the Skip-Bo game – while he said he was there, Vanessa W. and Shirin S. both testified that he was not there.
1:02 p.m.: “Mr. Boateng did not comment on the matter,” reports Forstner, adding that attempts were already being made to reach an agreement. “He could not agree to a deal because he had not done anything,” Boateng said in the legal discussion, the judge continued in the witness box.
12:59 p.m.: Hemmerich returns one minute early. Now the witness Forstner, actually a judge and responsible for the second Boateng case, is called. “Normally you sit here at the front,” the judge also notes.
12:58 p.m.: Now all we need is the judge, then we can continue. The other trio just came into the room.
12:56 p.m.: Boateng’s lawyer Walischewski and public prosecutor Eckert are already back in the courtroom and speaking. The co-plaintiffs’ representatives are also there. Still missing are defense attorney Hamm, the expert witness, Judge Hemmerich and, of course, Boateng.
11:22 a.m.: The judge now orders a self-reading of the files regarding the newly introduced evidence and adjourns the session until 1 p.m. “in the hope that the construction work will be finished by then.” What exactly is causing the noise is still unclear.
11.20 a.m.: “I didn’t want to have a jury trial and you, Ms. Public Prosecutor, initiated that,” says the judge. The public prosecutor defends herself, but the judge doesn’t accept that. The two will probably never come to an agreement.
Then you suddenly hear a knocking sound from the ceiling, presumably from the loudspeakers – the judge demands “quiet up there in the audience, otherwise I’ll call the police officer.” But there is nothing up there, and the noise continues.
11.17 a.m.: “This is all coming back to haunt us,” says the judge, complaining that trials from 2019 and the still ongoing Lehnhardt trial from 2019 have now been brought into the proceedings. This also includes accusations against prosecutor Eckert, who she rejects and says that she is still presumed innocent. “I didn’t have that feeling last week,” counters the judge.
11.13 a.m.: The lawyer wants to introduce a flood of new evidence to refute various accusations and allegations that have either been described in the media or raised in court. Some of the evidence concerns issues that have not yet been mentioned or have little to do with the proceedings here. “I wanted to keep all of that out of the proceedings and limit it to the incident in 2018,” says Judge Hemmerich, announcing further days of the trial. “I will question all witnesses, but I will bring the trial to an end because I feel bound to the law.”
11.08 a.m.: A message from Silvera is read out in which Shirin S. said that she knew that Boateng had hit not only Kasia and herself, but Silvera denied this in her reply and said that Boateng would never lay a hand on women.
11.07 a.m.: The files show that Lehnhardt reported many things before her death, but not physical assault. According to Walischewski, other accusations that were never tried in court, such as planting cocaine or stealing two cell phones, can also be refuted.
11.04 a.m.: The court’s actions made it possible to report suspicions, the lawyer continues. The proceedings should have been stopped long ago, demands Walischewski. It can be proven that many things in the Kasia Lehnhardt case happened differently than is often reported.
The words facts, objective, truth and proof appear extremely often in his statements. It remains to be seen whether he can back these up with material.
11:01 a.m.: Boateng could also prove that he did not force Lehnhardt to sign a non-disclosure agreement and did not even have a copy. Boateng’s statements in an interrogation about the case from April 2024 are also to be introduced. “This should show that Boateng has been wrongly condemned by the media for years and that the judiciary has contributed to dragging out the proceedings,” Walischewski reads.
10:59 a.m.: Statements by Kasia Lehnhardt that Boateng did not hurt her at all are also to be introduced as evidence. Lehnhardt’s testimony from 2020 is also to be introduced. A witness, Laura M., an alleged affair of Boateng’s, is also to be questioned.
10:56 a.m.: His colleague, the lawyer Monika Hamm, is also to be questioned – the reason is an offer that Boateng made and which would have enabled Shirin S. to move to Munich. However, she rejected this “as a joke” and instead sued for 60,000 euros for lack of contact. A voice message from Shirin S. to Rebecca Silvera is also to be introduced as evidence.
10:52 a.m.: Boateng’s lawyer Walischewski is now reading out a motion for evidence. “The defense still has further evidence,” he says, among other things. A police officer from Munich is to be questioned, who can confirm that Shirin S. wanted to “put pressure on an ongoing custody case” by filing a complaint. The lawyer also brings up things from the proceedings surrounding an injury to Kasia Lehnhardt that are to be refuted.
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