Hugs can be dangerous in virus-heavy times. But even apart from Corona, physical contact with an attractive young woman can lead to undesirable side effects. In Schwabing, a 26-year-old spoke to a pensioner on the street to ask for directions to the pharmacy. The information given.
In the meantime, she put her arms around him, suddenly clutched the 78-year-old very tightly, at the same time pulled his 15,000-euro Rolex off his wrist and sprinted away. Because the man also suffered injuries to his hand as a result, the Munich district court sentenced the housewife from Duisburg to three years in prison for robbery and intentional bodily harm. If only for “general preventive reasons”, according to the chamber, one cannot impose a suspended sentence with this high level of criminal energy.
The crime happened in the summer of 2020: On a warm August afternoon, the pensioner was walking along Kurfürstenstraße in Schwabing when a young woman, who he considered attractive, approached him and asked for a pharmacy. The beautiful shine didn’t last long, the woman had immediately clutched him, opened the wristwatch and violently tore the Rolex off his wrist. The watch cut the owner’s thumb. The thief ran towards a gray compact car double-parked nearby.
The DNA traces on the jacket transferred the woman
But hugs can also be treacherous. The forensics took a close look at the 78-year-old’s jacket and discovered DNA traces of the perpetrator on the sleeve. The woman was eventually identified and taken into custody. At the time, she was already pregnant and gave birth to her child in prison. A circumstance that the jury judged to mitigate the sentence. In total, the housewife was in prison for almost eleven months before the trial date.
In court, the Duisburg woman confessed to the crime and apologized to the pensioner. Her family will try to compensate for the damage, she said. For the pensioner, however, the time value of the watch was not so important. The Rolex was a gift from a friend in 1979, a souvenir that was dear to him. “I almost never took off this watch,” he said in court. It is important to him that he gets the watch back.
The court judged this wish to be unrealistic. It also accused the accused of traveling to Munich only to commit crimes. And that she specifically chose older people and exploited their willingness to help.
On the same day in August, another similar robbery took place in Munich. However, the victim did not recognize the perpetrator from Duisburg, no DNA traces were found either, and according to police findings, another criminal couple was in the city that day to commit similar crimes. Therefore, the lay judge assumed that the 25-year-old could be acquitted in the second case. According to district court press spokeswoman Julia Burk, the verdict is not yet final.