"I was just looking": Deliveryman in Vienna charged with gold theft

According to the indictment, the previously unblemished man seized gold bars and coins worth 14,150 euros in addition to notebooks and smartphones. The previously unblemished man did not confess to the embezzlement.

The driver, employed by a shipping company, was responsible for delivering and transporting packages to the distribution center. After cases of package contents disappearing increased during his shifts, surveillance camera footage was evaluated, which, from the prosecutor's perspective, clearly proves that the man "accessed" the items in question. As evidence, there are even so-called weighing cards, which show that the packages were lighter after being delivered to the postal distribution center than before.

Nevertheless, the defendant pleaded "not guilty." "I didn't take anything. There are many packages that come opened," he assured Judge Christian Gneist. The police had even searched his apartment and found nothing.

Trial in Vienna: "It was out of curiosity"

Subsequently, the 50-year-old was confronted by the judge with the fact that he was observed opening twelve packages at the end of August, taking nothing from them - possibly due to a lack of valuable content - and resealing ten packages. "It was out of curiosity," the man claimed, "I just looked."

As a result, the judge decided to assign a legal aid to the man, who had not been represented by a lawyer until then. Nevertheless, the previously unblemished man faces a prison sentence of up to three years if convicted. Several witnesses will also be summoned for the next hearing at the end of August.

(APA/Red)

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