A “man” of “oriental appearance”, who head-butted a store detective, giving him a concussion, and kicked and broke his ribs, when the detective told him that it’s not permitted to open the cellophane-sealed packages of perfume and test-spray them (according to the original police press release here), was handed his sentence today:
He got seven months jail time and will be immediately deported after serving time.
Just kidding! Of course not.
His sentence was suspended, and won’t affect his residence status at all. The court counted in his favour that he just enrolled in a German language class.
An original translation from Schwarzwälder Bote:
Freudenstadt
Perfume-Test Causes Freakout
By Ina Frank, Dec. 19., 2017
Freudenstadt – A 21-year-old was handed a suspended sentence for battery attack in the Kaufland department store in Freudenstadt
A young man wants to try a perfume at Kaufland in Freudenstadt, and tears open the cellophane. When he is being told that this is not permitted, he completely freaks out. The result is bruises and a capsular rupture of the finger of the store detective.
Repeatedly sprayed around in the aisle
The 21-year-old had to answer for this incident on Monday at the District Court Freudenstadt. On May 31. of this year, the accused, who was residing in Pfalzgrafenweiler at the time, was shopping at Kaufland department store in Freudenstadt. He wanted to test a perfume in the drugstore department, opened the packaging, and sprayed several times in the aisle. First, a sales lady notified him that this is not permitted, then the store detective attended. According to the charge, the accused then pushed the store detective against the shelf, kicked him repeatedly, and headbutted him. For the bruises and a capsular rupture in his pinkie finger, resulting from that, the store detective had to stay in hospital for two days.
When the hearing opened, the accused stated that he was willing to answer the judge’s questions. But his answers were quite monosyllabic – respectively that what the attending female interpreter made of them. The accused asserted that he thought the perfume was a sample for testing. He wasn’t able to recall why exactly the argument broke out. He couldn’t recall whether he beat or kicked and which parts of the detective’s body. Quickly, the witnesses were summoned, as the plaintiff did not have much to say and showed no insight at all into having committed a crime.
The first witness to speak was the detective. He recalled that the plaintiff first gave him a headbutt. His other memories were rather vague. [After receiving a concussion? No Way! – translator] He described the attacks of the accused as “Simply battering” and said that the accused was “difficult to restrain”. Therefore, the department manager, and the store manager, who arrived at the scene, finally dispatched the 21-year-old to the outside through the emergency exit.
His first criminal offense
Further witnesses were two female employees of Kaufland, who were busy at the adjoining shelves, the department manager and the store manager. All of them described the incident similarly: The plaintiff had become more and more aggressive, but they weren’t able to precisely recall when and where which punches and kicks landed, and if they hit target or not. A police officer finally explained that they identified the accused by finger prints on other goods in his shopping cart.
It was the first time that the plaintiff had committed a criminal offense. For this reason, and because he had just enrolled in a German class in the vocational college, a suspended sentence was handed. The plaintiff has to stay clear of criminal offenses for three years, otherwise, he will have to go to jail for seven months, the judge explained. The accused left the courtroom almost cheerful.
