The case of the accused rape in a pizzeria took a surprising turn on Tuesday before the regional court. Judge Benjamin Roellenbleck spoke of an anticipated acquittal and, at the request of the public prosecutor, overturned the arrest warrant against the accused. The 42-year-old family man was in custody five months after his niece reported him. The 23-year-old saleswoman got so caught up in contradictions on the witness stand that the judge asked her: “Why are you lying to us?”
According to the indictment, the niece raped in a restaurant
According to the indictment, the father of the family is said to have “bottled” his niece in a friend’s restaurant and to have violated the woman after she fell asleep. The accused rejected this allegation on the second day of the hearing. Rather, he had previously had consensual sex with the 23-year-old. After she vomited because of alcohol in his friend’s currently closed restaurant, there were no more intimate acts.
The witness had testified about her uncle not even on the mouth. He was a good friend, someone she could trust, and she could talk to him about anything. About relationship problems with your partner, like on the day of the tattoo. The 23-year-old reiterated the rape allegation that she woke up in pain that night after lying down briefly on a bench to sleep. Her uncle had offended her.
Apparently the uncle’s sexual relationship with the niece
Defense attorney Adrijana Blazevska-Gkiztavidis dropped the bomb after questioning by the court. “Is it true that there are sex videos of you and my client?” The lawyer asked the witness, who just looked in disbelief. The defense attorney stated that the defendant had a long affair with the niece. When confronted with this, the witness said that you may have “had sex a few times.” When the judge asked, the “few times” suddenly became “many times.” “So you could almost say you were in a relationship?” asked Roellenbleck. “Yes,” admitted the witness. Her aunt hadn’t known anything, so she had apparently remained silent about it until the end.
The prosecution also accuses the restaurant owner of facilitating, rather than preventing, the alleged rape. The witness had said that she had not known the man before. In the process it emerged that the trio had apparently been on vacation together in Holland. According to the defendants, there should also have been sexual acts there. The witness cited gaps in her memory that she had memory problems after falling on her head.
Witness is said to have invented brain tumor
The ex-girlfriend of the alleged victim said the 23-year-old was vying for attention and sometimes inventing things in this context. A brain tumor, for example. Her mother became clearer and suspected that the rape had been invented to save the broken relationship with her daughter.
This was enough for the judge to ultimately deny the urgent suspicion of the accused. “If we overturn the arrest warrant, it translates as: acquittal,” Roellenbleck had previously said, but the trial will continue for the time being. The 23-year-old is now threatened with an investigation himself, for example for false testimony, false suspicion or, since her uncle was in custody, even deprivation of liberty.
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