The 54-year-old had used a chainsaw to saw a roof beam in his neighbor’s garage in his house on Lake Starnberg.
According to the indictment, he is also said to have evaded the bill in a parking garage at Munich Airport and not paid the parking fees.
The court closed proceedings for insulting police officers. On December 22nd last year, Lehmann was sentenced by the Starnberg district court to a fine of 210 daily rates of 2,000 euros each for damage to property, insulting police officers and attempted fraud – a total of 420,000 euros. The ex-professional and the public prosecutor, who had even called for a suspended prison sentence in the first trial, lodged an appeal against this.
In the second trial, the outcome was milder for the former football star. Lehmann had previously accepted his guilty verdict. He agreed with the public prosecutor and the court to accept his conviction for criminal damage and fraud. He originally stated that he had entered the garage with the chainsaw in his hand, but otherwise cited gaps in his memory and spoke of false suspicions and character assassination.
