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Pedosexual violent fantasies

At 7:25 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Florian Teichtmeister entered the Vienna Regional Court through a back entrance, more than two hours before his trial for “possession and production of images of child abuse” finally began at 9:45 a.m. It was scheduled for February 8, it was postponed and postponed again due to an alleged illness of Teichtmeister.

But the longer he put it off, the darker it became for the former Burgtheater actor. Because the more than 76,000 images and videos with offensive images of children that Teichtmeister had collected over thirteen years could be thoroughly evaluated again: the responsible judge Stefan Apostol ordered a data forensic scientist to process the files again. It is now clear that Teichtmeister not only manipulated a few of them and processed them into collages with often violent content, but 34,696. Three years in prison is now possible, up from two in February.

Prosecutor Julia Kalmar speaks in the indictment against ‘pedosadistic texts’ and seriously disturbed violent fantasies, which she reads for minutes in court. There is always talk of violent sex with little girls, leading to their deaths. They are wild, bleak, perverted, bizarre fantasies. Those present are shocked. The forensic psychiatrist previously noted a ‘very dramatic escalation of perversion’. The risk of an aggravated relapse is great.

Guilty, remorseful, relieved

The 43-year-old Teichtmeister pleads guilty in court, no witnesses are needed, so the trial takes just under three hours. All allegations against him are correct, says the suspect. “In the early 2000s, I fell into a pronounced addiction to pornography, which manifested itself in long-term consumption behavior,” the ORF quotes him as saying that his cocaine use (3 grams per day, as his lawyer Rudolf Mayer announced the day before) made everything worse Purchasing “has become virulent and completely escalated since 2008”, even though he was clear in good times that he was jeopardizing his career.

Teichtmeister does not use his right to remain silent this Tuesday, he invokes the purifying effect. Would he call himself a pedophile? Yes, he says. The ORF warns: “Florian Teichtmeister is an actor”, his staging of the penitent is strikingly perfect.

“Today I know that without consumers there is no demand. Today I know what kind of suffering these children, who are in these pictures, have gone through,” says Teichtmeister. ‘I wanted to get caught. It was a relief, I knew it was over,” he confesses. He has been undergoing psychiatric and psychological treatment for two years, says he no longer drinks, uses coke or consumes pornographic material.

The man who defended Fritzl

Defender Rudolf Mayer also likes to talk, he is a man of difficult cases and big podiums. He defended the ice lady Estibaliz Carranza, who killed two of her men, dismembered them and froze them in the freezer before setting them in concrete. And he defended Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for more than twenty years, repeatedly raped her and fathered seven children with her. Mayer’s trick: He makes his clients plead guilty in the hopes of getting their sentences reduced.

Mayer used to be in the theater himself, as a boy in the ballet, later an actor, that’s how the collaboration with Teichtmeister came about a few days ago, we just know each other. The moderator of the program ‘ZIB 3’ wants to know on Tuesday evening, a few hours before the trial, whether you are defending someone who is already being seriously excluded publicly and in the media.

“Look,” Mayer replies, “if you, as a criminal defense attorney, are unable to disengage from the crimes committed by your client, then you have failed in your profession. A surgeon must be able to operate on a war criminal lying on the table in front of him as calmly as if he were not a war criminal. That is the dismissal method you must have to be able to do this work.”

For his current client he hoped in advance ‘a suspended sentence, he is a first offender, he is not guilty’ and prison is the worst solution, especially for an offender with a personality disorder ‘no one gets better in prison, he gets infected ‘, they get worse when he went in.”

Preferably lynching

Last weekend, several people gathered in front of the home of Teichtmeister’s mother, who suffered from cancer, led by far-right activist and corona denier Martin Rutter. They brought banners and Austrian flags and a huge homemade gallows and demanded the death penalty for Teichtmeister. They would prefer lynchings.

The gallows will be before the regional court again on Tuesday. Rudolf Mayer, who used to box, is standing in the hall with four bodyguards.

The judgement

And inside? While waiting for the verdict, ORF 2 makes a life-affirming contribution to Helene Fischer and her five concerts in Vienna. She wants people to dive into a wonderful world, says Helene Fischer. As an actor, Florian Teichtmeister has certainly said this before.

Florian Teichtmeister was found guilty shortly after 1:30 p.m. However, he does not have to be in jail, there are too many mitigating reasons, the media bias is cited, his sincere path to recovery for two years and explicitly also the protesters with their gallows before the regional court. Judge Apostol says: “The court has not followed the call of the street”, and to Teichtmeister: “You have a sword of Damocles over you”, the conditions will be extremely strict in the coming years, the network of checks and therapies will be extremely tight. The verdict is a two-year suspended prison sentence and conditional admission to a forensic therapeutic center. Teichtmeister accepts the verdict. Rudolf Mayer should prevail.