Star of David scandal: Explosive assertion from Gil Ofarim – This is what his lawyer says | EUROtoday

After Gil Ofarim’s shocking statements within the “Jungle Camp” (RTL) in regards to the Star of David scandal, his lawyer spoke out on social media. In video posts that had been revealed on Instagram on Saturday night time, Ofarim’s protection legal professional Alexander Stevens mentioned, amongst different issues, an alleged witness and video recordings that performed a serious function within the proceedings in Leipzig that had been later discontinued.

The background: The musician made headlines in 2021 when he portrayed himself on Instagram as a sufferer of anti-Semitic statements made by a lodge worker. The man stated that Ofarim ought to take off his Star of David and solely then would he be allowed to verify in, based on the singer’s accusations on the time.

Ofarim filed a criticism, however the lodge worker additionally defended himself and in flip reported the musician for defamation. Records from the lodge performed an vital function within the subsequent trial. A report on the video recordings urged that the chain was not even seen when Ofarim needed to verify into the lodge. A digital forensic knowledgeable evaluated seven movies from the surveillance cameras within the lodge at nice expense.

In court docket in Leipzig, Ofarim, the son of the Nineteen Sixties star Abi Ofarim, who died in 2018, lastly confessed in short sentences and apologized. “The allegations are true. I’m sorry,” he stated within the defamation trial. In doing so, he admitted that his allegations of anti-Semitism had been unfaithful. The proceedings had been discontinued. The musician needed to pay a sum of 10,000 euros as a situation. The court docket introduced on the time that, within the opinion of the prison chamber, “all doubts and speculations in this matter had been finally eliminated.”

Ofarim was in dialog with fellow camper Simone Ballack within the episode of “I’m a Star – Get Me Out of Here!” that aired on Friday night. unexpectedly addressed the occasions at the moment. He was primarily fascinated about video recordings that performed a serious function within the trial of the so-called Star of David scandal. Ofarim claimed, with none proof, that the tape evaluated within the proceedings was not the unique tape. He additionally spoke of a witness who stated that he had “seen the Star of David”.

Ofarim’s statements within the jungle camp additionally got here as a shock as a result of he had left many questions from his fellow RTL campers in regards to the case unanswered within the earlier days. However, how he got here to his conclusions in regards to the video materials remained unclear.

Ofarim’s lawyer Stevens mentions non-public experiences

According to Ofarim’s protection legal professional Stevens, the query of the visibility of the Star of David doesn’t matter, as he claimed in his Instagram publish. He justified this by saying that sporting the star was not a obligatory prerequisite for an insult. That means: You do not need to see the Star of David to insult somebody in an anti-Semitic manner. “Especially since it was established based on a witness statement that the hotel manager did not express any insults and therefore this accusation was false, for which Gil Ofarim also apologized.”

Stevens additionally talked about a non-public report commissioned by Ofarim’s protection attorneys, which allegedly got here to a unique conclusion than the primary knowledgeable, i.e. the digital forensic knowledgeable.

In one other video article that Stevens had revealed just a few hours earlier, he commented on the evaluated movies from the method.

Apparently two seconds of the video are lacking

Stevens raises the query of whether or not certainly one of them may have been manipulated. “During the trial, we defense attorneys discovered that one of the three videos reviewed had a time jump at a critical point – two seconds missing,” Stevens claimed within the Instagram publish. Stevens’ statements couldn’t initially be independently verified.

Stevens solely commented reside on Instagram on Wednesday night along with prison decide Thorsten Schleif in regards to the termination of the Leipzig prison proceedings. The attorneys defined that Ofarim had not but commented additional on the case with a stop and desist declaration. In such circumstances, purchasers are sometimes suggested: “It’s best not to say anything more about it.”

It was unclear whether or not Stevens and Ofarim’s latest statements constituted a violation of this cease-and-desist declaration. The Leipzig public prosecutor’s workplace didn’t need to touch upon the case when requested by the dpa.