A strange man lives in his own apartment while on vacation. This has now happened to a young student in Würzburg. What the landlord has to do with the matter.
When the Korean student Yuna Seo (name changed by the editors) can finally return to Germany after three months, she can’t believe her eyes. Furniture, dishes and cosmetics have disappeared from her apartment in the Grombühl district of Würzburg, burned or filthy. Instead, she finds leftover food, a used toothbrush and other dirt on the toilet brush in her bathroom.
It is hard to imagine how the young student must have felt when entering her apartment. Her landlord, Astrid F. (name changed by the editors), a respected Würzburg property owner, had apparently used the corona lockdown to double-rent the two-room apartment.
Landlady wanted information about travel plans
The Würzburg lawyer Chan-Jo Jun, who has already caused a sensation with his criminal charges against eleven leading Facebook managers across Germany, is now dealing with this case. “The landlord presumably assumed that she could handle the interim rent so discreetly that her main tenant would not notice. She always wanted to be informed about travel plans,” Jun told the editorial team. F. always informed her tenant about entry restrictions via WhatsApp. After a chat protocol, which is available to this editorial office, she wrote, among other things: “I think you cannot go to Germany at the moment because of Corona.”
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Therefore, she probably did not expect Seo to return to her apartment on Schiestlstrasse, without informing her landlord, where the blow hit her. It was human instinct that immediately told her something was wrong and made her search her entire apartment.
“I was speechless and angry at the same time,” recalls Seo. In addition to a used, foreign toothbrush, she found dietary supplements for bodybuilders or leftovers of food in the trash can. Some of her things were missing, some had burn marks or soiling. When asked by the landlord, she is said to have only claimed that there were craftsmen in the apartment to repair the heating.
Photo: Yuna Seo
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200 euro note as compensation
Even the police believed the landlady. “She stood there as a crazy liar,” says lawyer Jun. Only after the neighbors described the interim tenant, who had been heard for weeks, and a former policeman who had believed Seo, did F. admit her lie. She admitted to renting the apartment to a third party. At first she claimed that it was for a few days, later it became two weeks.
“I really thought God sent her to me because until this happened she was the nicest German I knew.”
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“I liked her very much, and she used me, my grief and our good relationship,” said Seo. The student had traveled to Korea to see her family since her beloved cat had recently died. “When I heard about the increasing number of corona patients, I even prayed for my landlord and her family. I was so stupid,” says Seo. “I really thought God sent her to me because until this happened she was the nicest German I knew.”
Photo: Seo
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In a letter to the student, the landlady offered her compensation to clean the apartment together, “I would be happy to help you clean the whole apartment”, and gave her a 200 euro note for the stolen cosmetics and perfumes . But Seo disagreed and turned on the lawyer.
Landlord works as child protection officer
Unfortunately, this editorial team was unable to speak to the landlord. The phone had to speak to her lawyer first. In a letter from the landlord’s lawyers to Chan-Jo Jun, which is available to this editorial office, it is written, among other things, that a prospective tenant who wanted to rent another apartment from F. as of April 1, immediately, so two weeks beforehand , would have needed a place to stay. The reason for the urgency was that he felt uncomfortable in his current accommodation due to the shutdown in the wake of the corona pandemic.
Photo: Yuna Seo
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After moving out, F. cleaned the bathroom and kitchen. However, she was not aware that objects were disposed of, soiled or stolen.
It is not yet clear who has lived in the student’s apartment for two weeks. The landlady is said to have called Mr. M. opposite Yuna Seo. Here, too, this editorial team tried to contact you – without success. As far as he is considered as a suspect, he will face a criminal complaint for trespassing, property damage and theft, said lawyer Jun.
When you feel uncomfortable within your own four walls
The student has been in quarantine since her return – in the apartment where an unknown person lived for two weeks without her knowledge. Seo is afraid of every sound from the stairwell, she feels watched and uncomfortable in her own four walls. “Sometimes I wake up every ten minutes, sometimes every two hours. I have nightmares and cry a lot,” says Seo. This fear now causes not only psychological but also physical pain for the student: “I have to see a doctor, but I am not allowed to go outside.”
Tenant evasion in Würzburg
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“Home should be a safe place where you can relax and live out your routine, especially if you live alone in a foreign country,” she adds. “A stranger lived in my apartment without my consent, which is a major encroachment on my privacy and security.”
The landlady is punishable for trespassing if she enters the apartment for no good reason, but also indirectly if she grants access to a good-faith third party, Seo makes clear. Further investigations will show whether the “intermediate tenant” was aware of the strangeness of the apartment. Complaints were filed against F. for, among other things, trespassing, theft, fraud prevention, defamation, fraud and property damage.
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