Prosecution trial: Gunther and Oana Krichbaum fight back
For four hours, a clutter of e-mails, printouts, newspaper articles, names, quotes, and more than 800 online posts on Wednesday left the judiciary busy. At the district court Pforzheim a 46-year-old German with Romanian roots had to answer for allegations of libel and slander against public figures. The CDU Bundestag member Gunther Krichbaum and his wife, lawyer Oana Krichbaum, had filed a complaint.
According to the indictment, the woman from the Enzkreis has since 2012 referred to Oana Krichbaum publicly on Facebook as a "children's graphic artist". According to the posts, she was involved in illegal child trafficking in the 1990s, and her husband prevented the clarification by his political weight, summarized prosecutor Marius Walz. A thicket of missing connections and sources that do not exist, tried to penetrate Judge Patrick Stemler. Four Facebook posts were scrutinized.
It caused a sensation that the defendant had submitted fake documents in support of their statement. She himself attacked Walz as well as interjections and questions several times the threat of regulatory fees. "Now there are no more questions, otherwise I'll leave the room," eventually even her own defender Florian Bähr made air, who had his hands full to keep his client in check.
The same morning, a ruling in civil proceedings in the same case should have fallen in the second instance at the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe. Until it is present, those responsible did not want to make a decision. The process will continue on Friday, March 15, at 9 o'clock.