Munich: When does Siegfried Mauser have to be in custody? – Munich
A sword of Damocles hangs over Siegfried Mauser, to be precise for more than six years. At that time, one of two lawsuits began against the former president of the Munich University of Music for sexual assault, and later even for rape. Since October 2019, Mauser has been a legally convicted sex offender for sexual assault in a total of four cases, according to the court he was behind bars for at least two years and months.
But so far, Mauser is still at large. He left Munich, moved to his place of residence in Salzburg and there, through his lawyers, made an incapacity for detention. Now, with a delay – also due to corona – in January 2022, the last expert report on the state of health of the convicted person should be finished. This means that the Salzburg Regional Court could decide on Mauser’s future at the end of January.
“There is a medical problem that you have to look at,” says Andreas Wiesauer, press spokesman at the Salzburg Regional Court. Due to the protection of personal rights, he cannot give precise information, only this much: It is about expert reports from different medical specialties.
In June 2020, Mauser had received the request to start prison in the Austrian prison Puch-Urstein, he should have presented by the end of July. Instead, one of his many attorneys had submitted statements from Mausers’ doctors, which were supposed to certify incapacity. “Judicial experts have to verify these statements,” explains Wiesauer. That includes investigations by Mauser and also statements on his part. “This will now all be processed in sequence.”
In 2019 the Federal Court of Justice confirmed the judgment
Mauser stood before the Munich District Court as early as 2015. Two musicians had accused him of sexual assault. In the first instance, the judge titled Mauser as a “Grapscher”, and in the last instance there was a sexual assault conviction in one case, which was punished with nine months probation. Then in 2017 the next negotiation. A singer accused him of having Mauser massively attacked and groped her several times during job interviews.
With another woman who was also applying to college, he had sexual intercourse on the couch in his office. The court believed the woman that Mauser had caught her off guard and died against her will. But the woman did not defend herself normally according to the old sex criminal law. The chamber sentenced Mauser to two years and nine months’ imprisonment in three cases for sexual assault.
Siegfried Mauser and his lawyers sued in vain through all instances, and the Federal Court of Justice upheld the judgment in October 2019. In January 2020 he should have started his sentence in the Landsberg prison, instead of Mauser, who also has Austrian citizenship, moved to Salzburg. If he had started his prison sentence in Germany, he would have been free again long ago. “We also have health-related facilities for serving prison sentences,” says Salzburg judge Wiesauer. Or it can be, when Mauser dies from “reasonable serious health problems” and cannot start imprisonment in such a way that one has to wait a long time until he is healthy. Then the sword of Damocles would probably hover over Mauser for a longer time.