The trial starts two hours late and continues unplanned: The accused, a mother of two and, by her own admission, a freelance mediator and conflict management expert, explains at length why she cannot be held responsible for the fate of the neighbor: “I had bronchitis, not corona. Also, I’ve certainly never been PCR tested.” Judge Dietmar Wassertheurer wants to know how your virus sample could then be examined by an expert? “It can’t be,” she remains convinced. “I was sick and stayed in bed, that was all. That’s the end of the discussion.”
