“Do politicians and prominent Austrians always have to have their apartments tidied up perfectly because they could always run the risk of the public prosecutor’s office showing up for a house search?” Asks a top Viennese lawyer when he read the contents of the documentation of the raid in the The Viennese apartment of the pollster Sabine Beinschab, accused in the current political crime thriller, learns.
The file with these somewhat irritating details on the condition of the suspect’s apartment is available to the investigation platform eu-infothek.com and the eXXpress. Lawyers who have been asked for their professional assessment of this act do not want to be mentioned by name – the lawyers do not want to suffer from the possible consequences of a criticism of the economic and corruption prosecutor’s office. However, in the eXXpress conversation they say about the detailed presentation of the “chaotic” state of the suspect’s apartment: “That looks very much like a deliberate campaign against the suspect. That is at least very strange for a documentation of a house search. “
And a top lawyer comments on the details from the dossier on the house search of Sabine Beinschab: “The question arises, why does the judiciary want to make this young woman bad with this unnecessary description of the apartment?” After all, it would not concern anyone of the more than 50 suspects and their lawyers who had access to this huge act, whether the apartment of a suspect was actually cleared at 6 a.m. when the house was searched on October 6th. The public prosecutor actually writes about the fact that “clothes racks with hanging laundry between piles of clothes and storage areas littered with disorganized objects” could be seen.
The assumption of the legal experts as to why this irritating file content was deliberately written by the WKStA investigator: “Perhaps a kind of stigmatization should take place here – the young woman is chaotic, has no overview of her bookkeeping, et cetera. In any case, the formulations create a very specific picture. “
A Viennese lawyer argues that the detailed description of the suspect’s apartment could massively refute an accusation that has been made repeatedly: “To continue to hold against the accused that she was warned shortly before the house searches on October 6th is therefore absolutely absurd . Who would leave the clothes horse standing around, who wouldn’t at least tidy up something when you know that the public prosecutor will ring the doorbell at six o’clock in the morning? “
During the house search, which lasted from 6.45 a.m. to 11.45 a.m., there was also a strange incident, which can be read in this dossier: A leg scrape, which has not opened the criminalist drumming on the door for more than 30 minutes, snatched one of the criminals away Officials returned their cell phone, which he already had in front of him. The pollster locked the cell phone again in front of the police officers and then refused to give out the lock code. . .
As reported, Sabine Beinschab was then imprisoned for one night. Criminal law lawyers consider the fact that she was offered a “leniency policy” – as reported by many media outlets – to be “absurd” and “fake news”: the pollster would have “no chance” of getting such a status – she would have “voluntarily and of their own accord ”have to report the possible criminal offenses and testify about them.
