Charges against Rapper Fler: damage to property, but not highway robbery

For the General Prosecutor’s office in Berlin, it was a bitter message you in the afternoon of the 10th. March on Twitter had spread: “the date for The announcement of the arrest warrant, the investigating judge of the assessment of the Prosecutor’s office has not followed and has lifted the arrest warrant because of Doubts as to the probable cause. The Accused is dismissed. The Prosecutor’s office reviews the filing of a complaint.“ The Accused, it was of the Rapper Fler. He was arrested on the Morning of the same day on the basis of a warrant of arrest for robbery and assault, after he was advised a week in advance, with a Team of the TV station RTL together.

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the result of the complaint, the public Prosecutor’s office is now. It is the next bitter message for the investigator: The Berlin court of appeal has confirmed in mid-June a decision of the district court, according to the arrest warrant of the Amtsgericht Tiergarten from the 5. March was unlawful. The Prosecutor’s office have shown in their arrest warrant application to the “facts of the case in a significant way inadequate.” “In the face of doubt, presentation of the facts in the warrant to a judge would have (…) not nearly authentic idea of the actual events in erlangen,” says the 14-page decision of the court of appeal.

The incident, in question, is described in the decision. Fler, bürgerlich Patrick Losensky, was accordingly, on the 2. March surprised against 13 o’clock on the Kurfürstendamm shopping street of the RTL camera team. Previously, the Rapper had posted on Instagram by a user who had accused him of misogyny: “I can’t be offender, when you go me on the eggs.” After the Comedian Shahak Shapira had publicly expressed their support for this woman, he got a voice message from Fler, in the this announced to beat Shapira for so long in the face, “that you never talk again”.

To these operations, RTL Berlin’s Rapper interview. Fler wanted to not be filmed, because he was in the company of his girlfriend, as he later wrote on Twitter. He had several times asked not to be filmed, and, finally, the camera is “beaten down”, whereupon he was attacked by the members of the RTL team.

struck Unexpectedly in the face?

In the decision of the court of appeal stated, however, that Fler’ll be accused of having the camera man suddenly punched in the face. During the ensuing physical altercation, he should have the man several times with his fist against the head. Then Fler should have taken the camera with both hands above the head lifted and the pavement, have thrown. After that, he got away with the “body of the camera, in which the storage medium was”,. On the evening of the same day he had reported at police officers, he knew from “various offenders addresses”, and the parts of the camera are passed, however, without a broken storage medium. The RTL cameraman is said to have suffered lacerations to the head and Shin, a skull contusion, an injury to the ear and a loose Incisor.