Pforzheim City Councilor Oana Krichbaum is suing for defamation

A 50-year-old woman accuses Pforzheim City Councilor Oana Krichbaum of illegal child trafficking and bombards her with messages.

Prominence does not protect against slander. Oana Krichbaum (CDU) has had this experience for years. The Pforzheim city councilwoman is bombarded daily with e-mails, Facebook postings and letters from a 50-year-old from the Enzkreis district in which she accuses the wife of Bundestag member Gunther Krichbaum (CDU) of illegal child trafficking. Therefore, since November, the allegation of defamation has been heard in the outer chamber of the Karlsruhe Regional Court.

At first she defended herself with a civil lawsuit against the "terror", as she puts it, reported Oana Krichbaum as a witness. The woman will not be dissuaded from her actions by a judgment passed against her in 2019. Not even because of the fines, which increase up to 10,000 euros, for violating the conditions imposed in the civil proceedings.

While driving home from the court hearing in Karlsruhe, the accused continued the Facebook terror until today. She therefore saw no other way out than to defend herself now with a procedure before a criminal court.

Oana Krichbaum's husband also receives countless e-mails

The terror began after the rejected request to move the rehearsals of the children's choir of the German-Romanian Society for a Christmas concert in November 2011 from the conductor's living room to a room in the city. She did not want her child to be taught in the rooms of strangers, the defendant demanded from Oana Krichbaum in her capacity as chairwoman of the German-Romanian Society (DRG).

Immediately afterwards, Krichbaum's husband was bombarded with e-mails. After a break, this continued in 2017, when the accused was denied admission to the DRG. She has registered more than 2,000 abusive postings.

The presiding judge, Stefan Bien, had a similar experience. Already at the beginning of the trial, he reported a large number of e-mails with "a jumble of information" that he had received from the accused and asked for moderation. However, there was no sign of moderation.