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Incident with chainsaw – charges against Jens Lehmann
Jens Lehmann and the thing with the chainsaw at Lake Starnberg. photo
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The public prosecutor’s office indicts the former national soccer player. What is he charged with?
Bizarre neighborhood dispute at Lake Starnberg: Last summer, the police there reported an incident with a chainsaw. The news quickly spread in the media that one of those involved was the former national goalkeeper Jens Lehmann. According to dpa information, it is about the World Cup hero of 2006. Now the Munich II public prosecutor has accused him. But why actually?
According to dpa information, the 53-year-old is accused of having cut a roof beam in his neighbor’s garage with a chainsaw because the garage blocked his view of the lake from his house. According to the spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office, who only speaks of a “former member of the German national football team”, the accused is charged with damaging property, among other things. Several media had previously reported on the indictment.
Lehmann took a position on Instagram on Friday afternoon, as reported by the “Bild” newspaper: “The allegations made against me are not correct,” wrote Lehmann. “The damage, as always, is the tremendous damage to reputation and disregard for privacy.”
According to the district court of Starnberg, the indictment has not yet been admitted. It is therefore still open whether the matter will go to trial in court. There is currently no comment on the allegations. The presumption of innocence applies until the end of the proceedings.