“Times the truth now”
Jens Lehmann is annoyed by Bavarian judiciary
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Drunk trip after the Oktoberfest? At 0.7 per thousand, the police are said to have caught the former DFB goalkeeper Jens Lehmann last year. The investigative authorities make a criminal order public on Monday, the 55-year-old defends himself.
The former soccer goalkeeper Jens Lehmann criticized the Bavarian investigative authorities after the penalty order issued against him. “The Bavarian judiciary communicates a criminal order against me nationwide, before I even have the chance to think about an objection and thus repeats my personal rights with my feet,” writes the 55-year-old on his X account.
On Monday, the authorities had made a criminal order against Lehmann public. The police had presumably caught Lehmann with too much alcohol at the wheel during the Oktoberfest and, months later, issued a penalty order. The public prosecutor's office in Munich I applied for a fine of 80 daily rates for negligent drunkenness in traffic, the investigative authority said on Monday.
In the meantime there is also an objection, a court spokesman confirmed a day later. The next step is now usually to schedule a main hearing. The presumption of innocence applies until a final conviction.
Lehmann: “A mistake”
“For given the occasion, the truth now,” Lehmann writes. It was a mistake to “drive a car -dated car with 0.7 per thousand”. The punishment for this was a month without a driver's license and a fine of 528 euros. He took both. On the other hand, it is not another matter: “What I do not accept is that the Bavarian judiciary still publishes my administrative offense to the 'Bild' newspaper and newspaper interviews that night.” Lehmann then quoted from the article (“A police officer on BILD: 'INDES IN THE THAT THAT TO THE THE THE THE THE THE” “).
Months ago, Lehmann spoke of an “mistake” on the alleged drunk trip. “It was really not a good thing from me. I regret that too, but I misjudged myself,” said Lehmann at the news channel World TV. He drove “two hours after the event” and had 0.7 per thousand. “You get your driver's license with it for four weeks,” said Lehmann. However, he defended himself against representations that he should have been “totally drunk”. This was “not the case at all”.
The ex-soccer goalkeeper was also legally sentenced to finance for property damage with a chainsaw on a neighboring property. That is why the court had formed an overall money penalty of more than 90 daily rates with the punitive order, the public prosecutor said at the time. A spokeswoman for the investigative authority did not want to give the exact number and the amount of the daily rates.
