Breakfast Service of Horror | Frankfurt
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OfStefan Ber
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Trial against man who haunts woman in hotel room and thinks she’ll be happy about it too
You may find Mr. K. attractive if you have a soft spot for Swabian franchisees with a motivational coach aura. Ms G. doesn’t have that. That’s why the then 23-year-old wasn’t happy when K. woke her up in her hotel room at Flemings in the early morning of September 12, 2021, whose key card he had concocted from the night porter, claiming that he was G’s friend.
According to the indictment, he asked the brightest “Do you want the orgasm of your life?” and when the woman politely but firmly said no, he fingered her arm a bit before kissing her goodbye. K. has lodged a penalty order for sexual counter-harassment and trespassing for 90 daily rates of 50 euros each, which is why the 39-year-old appears before the district court on Monday afternoon.
Things were completely different, says K. The evening before, the end of a conference of franchisees in Frankfurt was celebrated with a big gala evening, “excellent conversations” and “good wine were drunk”. K., who sees himself as a “premium customer” of the franchise company, runs seven branches that are dedicated to the “breakfast service” of all things – even if only to the kind that the customer wants and, above all, has paid for.
Ms. G. is not a premium customer, but what men like Mr. K. like to call a “social media mouse”. Mr. K. doesn’t do that in front of the district court, he respectfully calls her “girl”. In any case, the girl proactively flirted with him and breathed her room number into his ear at the end of a boozy evening. Of course, like Hector, he ran to the meatballs, but didn’t knock, “you’re a gentleman,” but instead swindled the night porter.
Inside he found the girl a bit disheveled in bed, apparently no longer interested in coitus, so he asked about her well-being and said goodbye, “you’re a gentleman”. The fact that K. says this sentence several times in the broadest Swabian dialect gives it an authentic touch. And then the girl suddenly “plays the role of victim” and he gets a penalty order. Presumably to be able to explain to her boss and her boyfriend how a strange man got into her hotel room. That’s not right.
Ms G., however, emphasizes that she is concerned with justice. She rejects the offer from K’s defense attorney to pay her a “considerable amount of money” if the case is closed. She also pretends not to have flirted with K. in any way, and she comes across as extremely believable. K., evidently full of good wine, had gotten a little lewd and a little raunchy early in the morning in the hotel lobby. She didn’t react in any way. A woman is a lady – even if she doesn’t have to keep saying that.
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