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The plaintiff showed the court a handwritten note with the confession of an acquaintance who allegedly claimed to have written the obscene message to Maurer.
3:50 pm, September 11, 2020
The trial of the president of the Green Club Sigrid maurer why bad gossip in Vienna it was postponed again on Friday. Shortly before the end of the process, the plaintiff presented new evidence. This is a handwritten letter supposedly confessed by a friend that he was the obscene news wrote to Maurer. This witness will now be questioned.
Judge Hartwig Handsur demanded that the plaintiff’s name and a witness subpoena address be given within a week. Therefore, at the moment no new date has been given for the negotiation.
The Viennese brewery operator accuses Maurer of defamation because the Green MP vThe social networks published a private Facebook message with obscene content that it had received the day before from the beer owner’s account. In it, he accused the businessman by name of having sent him the message, which the latter denies. His lawyer Adrian E. Hollaender He also requested that the private prosecution be extended to name calling, as Maurer is said to have called Bierwirt an “idiot” in a private chat conversation. Then a screenshot appeared in the media.
The owner of the beer claimed that his computer in the restaurant was freely accessible and that anyone could have written this message through his Facebook account. Now, on the last day of the trial, when a trial was actually expected, he presented the confession of the acquaintance. The friend, who is also a customer of the restaurant, admitted the “nonsense”. He was not aware that the matter would cause so many changes, he writes. “We were all drunk back then,” said the man who said that It is said that he dropped the confession in the mailbox of the brewery on July 9.
When asked why he does not present the document until today, the beer innkeeper said: “I wanted to wait until today’s trial and listen to the people. I deliberately withheld it.” Then he turned to the friend: “I already asked him if he’s stupid and how he’s doing. He was probably drunk.” “You are already clear that you must testify here as a witness, I need full name and address,” said the judge – the plaintiff said he no longer knew his name exactly because he was just a guest, but “not my wife and my son is.”
“Now is the end of the time for fairy tales,” said attorney Maurers, Maria Windhager. When asked why he had not delivered the letter to his lawyer immediately, the plaintiff did not respond. Windhager also wanted to know if the beer owner could remember if the friend in question was present at the restaurant on the day the message for Maurer was written. “I don’t remember being there that day,” he said.
“I am absolutely stunned. I think this is absolute madness,” the green deputy told reporters after the recent postponement. “Of course, I am extremely disappointed that there is no verdict today. The process has dragged on for a long time. And I feel upset.” His lawyer also described the sudden appearance of the confession as “strange” and “absolutely implausible”. If this letter were to be believed, it would have been introduced much earlier, Windhager said. The witness had been “taken out of the hat.”
Maurer had in May 30, 2018 He made public a private Facebook message via social media, which he had received the day before from Josefstädter Bierwirt’s account. Later, Maurer justified herself by saying that she “didn’t want to leave this message like this.” The content was wildly obscene, and the green politician had passed the bar a few hours before receiving the message and the operator outside and two other men are said to have misdirected. Since he did not see any legal possibility of taking action against obscene indecentrations, he made them public, Maurer explained.
The brewer claims that the messages were not written or sent by himself. He demanded that the mason was sentenced to a fine of 3,000 euros in the first judicial process in October 2018 for defamation. Another 4,000 euros were awarded to the local operator for the “misfortune suffered”. Furthermore, Maurer should have borne the costs of the procedure.
the Vienna Higher Regional Court (OLG) however, it reversed this decision in March 2019 and ordered that the process be resumed. This opened in September and is now continuing after a nearly year-long hiatus due to the corona pandemic.
Maurer, who has returned to be a political deputy, enjoys parliamentary immunity, but resigned it. Just a week ago, together with her party colleague and Justice Minister Alma Zadic, as well as Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler and Minister for Women Susanne Raab (both ÖVP), she presented a package of measures on “online hate”.
