Brno: The robber failed in his appeal, he is serving five years for the robbery in the gambling hall!
The Czech police collaborated on the case with their Austrian colleagues, who arrested the suspect after four months. Josipovic had a reputation as a slot machine addict with a disordered life.
He knew the game room on the Czech-Austrian border well and visited it often. By the way, Austria has a thirty-year ban on playing slot machines!
I slept at my girlfriend’s place
However, the Austrian was not going to accept the original verdict from May 2021 and appealed. “I have an alibi. On the fateful night, I slept at my girlfriend’s place,” he was panting. On Thursday, she even presented a statement before the Austrian court that he did not leave the home during the robbery.
The district court in Znojmo was based on a chain of indirect evidence and the opinion of an expert who identified the robber caught on camera in the gambling hall with Josipovic. “I refuse this attempt, I want a new opinion,” Josipovic said at the appeals court.
Last year, the Supreme Court overturned the original verdict, stating that the district court should supplement the evidence. He did so and handed down a five-year sentence again. Josipovic appealed again and now demanded the annulment of the second sentence and acquittal at the court in Brno.
But the appeals panel was clear. “The court agreed with the procedure of the lower instance, in terms of guilt, punishment and damages. She adheres to the recommendations of the Supreme Court. We found no procedural defect,” said the chairman of the appeals panel, Vlastimír Čech. The judgment is final. The money stolen from the gambling hall was never found.
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