«No evidence of crime». A court has acquitted the director of the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich.
The district court Munich I has acquitted the theater director Thomas Pekny of the charge of serious sexual abuse. Ultimately, no evidence could be provided, said the presiding judge Nikolaus Lantz on Wednesday.
He emphasized that the acquittal for the 69-year-old director of the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich was “a short story”. Maybe everything was “as harmless” as Pekny said it was, Lantz said. “If not, you are very lucky.” The verdict is not yet legally binding.
The public prosecutor had accused Pekny of having approached drunk women at the Oktoberfest and taking them to the rehearsal rooms of his theater. There he is said to have passed on the sleeping women and made videos and photos of them.
Three cases were charged, but only one of the women concerned had been identified. In one of the cases, the public prosecutor’s office had even seen a rape in their plea and demanded a total of four years and three months.
Pekny denied the sexual abuse allegations in the process. “I would never do something like that without asking first,” he read about his defense attorney Eva Maria Krötz. The women agreed. This could not have been ruled out with the certainty necessary for a conviction, the court found.
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