First Division of the Balearic Islands County Court, Avoidable temporary imprisonment on bail of 50,000 euros For Stuttgart football player Atakan Karazor On charges of sexual assault in Ibiza.
Thus, it has changed the procedural state Investigation of the Athlete by the Administrative Court No. 4 of Ibiza. Karazor has been in precautionary detention since June 2022.
The court notified Karazor this Thursday of the decision, which also prohibits prosecution and approaching the case at the Supreme Court of Appeals every month, in case the football player escapes from prison after paying bail. and communication with the victim.
On the other hand, the Chamber also changed the procedural status of the other investigated in this case in the same sense. Both had paid bail yesterday, according to forensic sources, who were unable to confirm whether they were released from prison.
Karazor and the other defendant were on vacation in Ibiza when they were arrested at dawn on June 8. accused of raping a young woman18 years old, Spanish national, in a villa located around the Cova Santa facility in Sant Josep.
Decided at the end of June pre-trial detention without bail a decision for both detainees Karazor’s lawyer appealedclaiming, inter alia, that the defendant had “translation errors” in his testimony and seeking rescission of the order for himself. The Provincial Court made the decision on the appeal public this Thursday and informed the prosecutor’s office. rejection of eviction petition According to the Balearic Islands High Court of Justice (TSJB), even if the procedural status of the football player requested for Karazor is changed, he can be released from prison on bail.
“We anticipate that the issue referred to the annulment of a right of process infringement decision with all warrants will not develop anyway,” the decision states. In this sense, the Court argues that “neither on appeal nor at trial” the defenses do not specify “which particular question or which particular poorly translated answer may determine an error of information or assessment in the investigating judge’s decision”.
Regarding precautionary detention without bail, the First Chamber of the Provincial Court recalled that the decision was made “in response to the existence of an escape risk situation” as the accused faces between 6 and 12 years in prison. However, in the instruction published today, it is explained in detail that in Germany, the country of origin of Karazor, “documents regarding his social, personal and business roots” have now started to be submitted, and the case has minimized the risk of death with the reflections of the case in the media. Escape, in the opinion of the court. Investigators submitted a contract of employment until 2026 in a major league team in Stuttgart and his properties in Germany, an instruction that “already establishes roots” in that country, according to instructions that show Karazor is in prison.
“Being a citizen of a European Union country that has signed a cooperation agreement on criminal investigation and execution forces the German authorities to remember that legal instruments are arbitrated in these agreements supporting cooperation with the German authorities. To ensure that the person under investigation is subject to decisions that may be dictated during the procedure,” he said. for the implementation in the country of origin of alternative prison sentence measures imposed by another Member State”, the Court recalls the argument for accepting bail for the accused.
“We will not enter into the study of the evidence as long as it is well explained in the first order taken from the statement of the victim and the witness agreed upon in the appealed decision and the temporary prison, notified and given without bail. his report stating that the victim’s wounds are consistent with his story”, regarding the order: “There are allegations and this does not correspond to the Court more than confirmation of its existence,” he continues.