The authorized dispute between the Greens’ high candidate for the EU elections, Lena Schilling, and the Bohrn Mena couple was adjourned till October on Friday after the preparatory session. Schilling was represented by her lawyer, whereas Veronika and Sebastian Bohrn Mena got here in particular person. Choose Andrea Zlöbl vehemently pushed for a form of mediation as a part of an “inside court docket settlement process”. Neither aspect rejected this in precept.
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The listening to on the Inside Metropolis District Court docket in Vienna attracted a substantial amount of media curiosity. The decide due to this fact urged an amicable settlement. The settlement course of had “already introduced options in circumstances that had escalated to a really excessive degree,” she confused, and despatched either side the related utility types. Can individuals speak to one another, “or are they only preventing with one another?” she requested. Such a course of had additionally been profitable within the dispute between tennis participant Dominic Thiem and his former coach Günter Bresnik.
Schilling’s lawyer Maria Windhager didn’t object, however solely on the situation of confidentiality. The opposing aspect had beforehand pushed for a settlement. Schilling ought to “admit that she lied,” stated Veronika Bohrn Mena, and cease suggesting that she made her statements in regards to the two to a “large circle” out of concern. She must retract her statements to the individuals involved, and publication within the “Normal” for instance would then be pointless, stated her husband. Additionally they needed to be reimbursed for the prices incurred.
“They all the time twist every thing”
The Bohrn Menas and their lawyer Daniel Bauer had been as soon as once more outraged that Windhager had handed their written assertion on to the media and thus unfold the accusations once more. They confused after the listening to that it was not them who had broadly disseminated the stop and desist declaration, however Lena Schilling’s web site. “I might be extremely comfortable if I had by no means met Lena Schilling,” stated Veronika Bohrn Mena with tears in her eyes.
“You all the time twist every thing,” Windhager countered in court docket. Even earlier than the trial started, she stated that, given what had occurred up to now, she couldn’t think about a settlement, however that cheap recommendations may very well be mentioned. “We now have already reached a settlement,” she stated throughout the trial. “We had a settlement with a confidentiality clause, with particular wording for journalists.” However: “The plaintiffs didn’t need that, and now we’re in hassle.” The earlier injunction didn’t include an act of contrition by Schilling, she confused. The Greens’ present EU consultant by no means stated that she had really unfold the accusations because the opposing aspect claimed.
It stays unclear whether or not the settlement process will really happen. One other listening to has been scheduled for October twenty fourth at 1 p.m., this time in a bigger room within the district court docket.
