Court ends proceedings in alleged assault against Chrupalla.
Last year, right after a campaign event in October, Tino Chrupalla, the leader of the AfD party, ended up in the hospital claiming he was attacked and stabbed in the arm. However, officials found no traces of a stabbing or attack and closed the case. Chrupalla went ahead and sued against this but he recently failed in his attempt before the Higher Regional Court of Munich.
The enigmatic case regarding a supposed attack on Chrupalla during an election campaign event in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, has now concluded in the courts. The Munich Higher Regional Court (OLG) dismissed an appeal filed by the AfD leader against the prosecutor's decision to shut down the investigation as inadmissible. He cannot appeal the OLG's decision further.
Back in October, Chrupalla abruptly left an election campaign event for the Bavarian state elections in Ingolstadt, citing nausea, dizziness, and headaches. He stated that he'd been stabbed in the right arm. The AfD party claimed that their leader had been injected with an unknown substance.
Chrupalla's lawsuit denied
Following the incident, authorities initiated a probe under suspected bodily harm. Investigators determined that a puncture, around 5 mm deep, had been found. Yet, the cause of this puncture wasn't clear. The investigators considered the puncture was "probably" caused by a pin needle. They discovered no genuine evidence of an injection or poisoning. Furthermore, there was no indication of an attack.
In December, the prosecutor's office in Ingolstadt closed the investigation. The general prosecutor's office in Munich didn't accept Chrupalla's complaint regarding this, prompting him to file a legal action known as an "application for enforcement." However, the OLG ruled this unacceptable due to formal mistakes, among other reasons. The OLG mentioned that the application only contained a brief description of the occurrence and vague allusions.
Moreover, there was also a lack of a clear argument discussing the prosecution's assessment of the evidence. Proceedings to enforce a complaint are only allowed if someone is trying to force the filing of charges against a specific individual. Hence, Chrupalla's lawsuit has been rejected.
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Source: www.ntv.de
