A former boss of Bayern-Egg must be before the court

The former managing Director of Bayern-Egg must answer five years after the Salmonella scandal in court. Him, among other things, personal injury, wrongful death, commercial fraud, as well as food - and animal-protection law violations are accused of. Between June and September 2014, a minimum of 187 consumers from Germany, Austria and France to be of Salmonella ill. A man died as a result. the

Five years after the Salmonella scandal and the lower-Bavarian company Bavaria Egg it comes to the process. The district court of Regensburg has approved on Friday the charges of the Prosecutor against the Ex - managing Director Stefan Pohlmann. The defendants, among other things, personal injury, wrongful death, commercial fraud, as well as food - and animal-protection law violations are accused of. The process should begin in the second half of the year.

Pohlmann will leave 2014 as the owner of the Bavaria-Egg-laying hens-operation in Aiterhofen (in the district of Straubing-Bogen) eggs marked grade A have to deliver, even though the production sites of Salmonella detected. Thus, at least 187 people in Germany, Austria and France to be of Salmonella ill. A is said to have died of the infection. Pohl's trade partner is paid for almost worthless goods to five million Euro.

The approval of the indictment had dragged on for more than one and a half years. The reason was that the court had in advance given a infectiological expertise in order. Thus, it should be clarified whether the death is actually due to pathogens from eggs-deliveries of the company Bavaria Egg caused, as it accuses the Prosecutor's office in its prosecution Pohlmann. The defenders of the Ex-CEO denied this.

According to the court, speaker, the question by the new report has not been finally resolved. Prosecutors and defenders stay with their conflicting views. The district court, however, holds a connection between the contaminated eggs, and in the case of death, at least as likely that the case will be heard at the oath chamber. At the same time, the speaker stressed that up to Pohl's any conviction, the presumption of innocence applies.

The Bayern-Egg scandal had been uncovered by SZ and BR.