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Jens Lehmann has to go to court again in April
Updated on March 24, 2025 – 7:59 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Ex-national goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has to answer once again in court. This time it is about a drunk trip after the Oktoberfest.
Around half a year after his conviction for an incident with a chainsaw, Jens Lehmann has to answer to court again on April 3. This time the former national goalkeeper has to answer for negligent drunkenness in traffic before the district court.
According to the indictment, Lehmann is said to have driven a car after the Munich Oktoberfest carpented car last year. Because he has filed an objection to a punitive order from the Munich Court, the process occurs. Originally, a fine of 80 daily rates and the withdrawal of his driver’s license had been ordered.
In an interview with Welt-TV, Lehmann spoke of an “mistake” a few months after the alleged act. “It was really not a good thing from me. I regret that too, but I misjudged myself,” he said. He drove two hours after the Oktoberfest event and had 0.7 per thousand. “You get your driver’s license with it for four weeks,” is right, “he added.
Lehmann defended himself against representations that he should have been “totally drunk”. This was “not the case at all”. The presumption of innocence applies until a final conviction.
Lehmann was already convicted of property damage last year. He had raged on a neighboring property with a chainsaw and sawn his neighbor’s garage. As a result, he was fulfilled by the court for a fine of 135,000 euros. In addition, the 55-year-old is said to have cheated the colliery in a parking garage at Munich Airport and did not pay the parking fees. The court hired a procedure for insulting police officers.
But that’s not all: On December 22, 2023, he was sentenced to a fine of 210 daily rates of EUR 2,000 each on December 22, 2023 for property damage, insulting police officers and attempted fraud – a total of 420,000 euros.
