HB was in prison in Greece in 2017.
Did he complete all the years, or got out before?
Many thanks, Heri.
This is a part of HB testimony to the police I once translated in English ä. Spiegel TV showed only a part of it and a lot was blackened:
This statement is about knowledge of a male German person I know by the name Christian
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I first met officials from the team of the Ministry responsible for the investigation
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I have never been friends with hristian. He was a friend of an accomplice of mine, one Michael
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In the course of my testimony I will mention several places. One of them is a place in Spain called Orgiva , which is south of Granada. There is a large hippie community there. For a few years now, the annual Dragon Festival has taken place there in March. Hippies and travellers from all over Germany travelled there to take part.
I will talk about several places, the most important of which is Santa Clara. Sant Clara is located about 100 km north of the Algarve coast, where there is a large dam. There is a large German community there and, as in Orgiva, many residents are hippies and travellers.
When I was in Portugal, I often stayed there. Santa Clara is where the rebel farm was located. I lived there for a while in a caravan. I don't know the address, I only know how to get there, but I was able to identify the
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I will also mention Portimao as the place where I first met Christian in a bar. I then went to Christian's house in Portimao. However, due to the advanced time, I could not recognise street names or the area in Portimao where the house is located.
It was a detached white house with a red tiled roof. Outside at the back of the house there was an area where cars were parked. At the time of my visit, the parked Autos
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Two weeks later, I saw Christian for a short time for the last time. He came to Orgiva to buy hashish to take back to Germany. He left the same day and I never saw him again.
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I finally left Orgiva in 2010. I went to Austria, then Italy and finally Greece.
I'm February 2011 I decided to return to Italy to celebrate my 40th birthday.
When I was about 40 km from the port of Igoumensita in Greece, I picked up 3 hitchhikers who I would describe as French-speaking rather light-skinned black people. When we arrived at the port, I was detained by the Greek police and arrested for human trafficking. I protested my innocence but was detained for 5 days and then released. I h thought that was the end of the matter.
In 2013, when I was living in France, I returned to Greece that year for a holiday. The following year I went there again. When I went there again in 2015, the police stopped my car. It was explained to me that I was wanted for human trafficking and that I had been found guilty in absentia and sentenced to seven years and three months imprisonment. I was so angry. Yes, I am a petty criminal but I was just picking up hitchhikers, it wasn't human trafficking! I served my sentence in Crete. I was released on 12 April 2017. I am on probation until 2021
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