FRANCE: COURT APPEARANCE OF GERMAN HOOLIGAN SUSPECTED OF BEATING FRENCH GENDARME INTO A COMA DURING THE SOCCER WORLD CUP

Record ID: 988533

  • Title: FRANCE: COURT APPEARANCE OF GERMAN HOOLIGAN SUSPECTED OF BEATING FRENCH GENDARME INTO A COMA DURING THE SOCCER WORLD CUP
  • Date: 15th August 1998
  • Summary: BETHUNE, FRANCE (AUGUST 14, 1998) (RTV) 1. EXTERIOR OF BETHUNE COURT 2. JOURNALISTS WAITING OUTSIDE COURT 3. INTERIOR OF COURT 4. SCU ERIC DUPONT-MORETTI, KARL-HEINZ ELSCHNER LAWYER, SAYING APART FROM JUSTIFYING MAYBE HIS RETURN TO PRISON, IT IS A CONFRONTATION THAT PRODUCED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. WITNESSES ARE RECOGNIZING ELSCHNER CATEGORICALLY BUT THE GENDARME SAID THAT HE SAW HIM WITH AN EARRING EVEN THOUGH ELSCHNER DOES HAVE ONE. HE SAID HE SAW A SCAR ON HIS FACE AND ELSCHNER DOES NOT HAVE ANY SCARS. THE POLICEMAN (SECOND WITNESS) SAID HE SAW HIM NEARBY. ALL THEY SAID IS DEEPLY VAGUE" (FRENCH) 5. SCU ERIC DUPONT-MORETTI SAYING "ON JULY 9, I GAVE THE MAGISTRATE SOME REPORTS PROVIVED BY THE HANOVER PROSECUTOR WHICH PROVE THAT ELSCHNER IS NOT ILTY. THESE DOCUMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN YET TRANSLATED. ALL THE GERMAN INVESTIGATIONS PROVE THAT HE IS INNOCENT" (FRENCH) DOUAI, FRANCE (FILE - JULY 1998) 6. FILE PICTURES FROM JULY 1998 IN DOUAI 7. ELSCHNER HANDCUFFED LEAVING COURT AND WALKING TO POLICE VAN LENS, FRANCE (FILE - JUNE 1998) 8. GENDARME DANIEL NIVEL LYING ON GROUND Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th August 1998 13:00
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  • Location: BETHUNE, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
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