Jens Lehmann
Former goalkeeper has to pay a fine of 420,000 euros
That was expensive: Jens Lehmann in court.
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Former national goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been sentenced to a hefty fine of 420,000 euros by the Starnberg district court.
He doesn’t have to go to prison – Jens Lehmann (54) was sentenced to a high fine of 420,000 euros.
On Friday imposed that Starnberg district court awarded the former national soccer goalkeeper 210 daily rates of 2,000 euros each for damage to property, insult and attempted fraud.
The chainsaw incident
The trial involved, among other things, a neighborhood dispute that had reached bizarre proportions. Lehmann is said to have sawed the roof beams in his neighbor’s garage with a chainsaw. Shortly before, the power supply to the surveillance camera had also been cut off – but it continued to run on battery power and was recording Lehmann.
The ex-athlete admitted to entering the garage with the chainsaw, but nothing more. According to the public prosecutor, Lehmann simply wanted to get one over on his neighbor.
Insulting police officers and bruising a parking fee
The “unemployed football coach,” as Lehmann described himself in court, was also accused of two further offenses: insulting two police officers and evading a parking fee. Overall, the public prosecutor saw a high level of criminal energy in Lehmann and had demanded a suspended prison sentence of ten months and three months’ salary for Lehmann.
Lehmann, however, accused the public prosecutor of character assassination. His lawyer said in his plea: “The prosecution is shooting sparrows with cannons.” Judge Tanja Walter saw it differently. She said loudly “time”, Lehmann presented himself “consistently as a victim of the justice system,” but was actually a perpetrator.