Almost 170 days of negotiations have now passed: Rupert Stadler in January 2021 in the courtroom in Munich
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The former Audi boss has to make a decision in the diesel trial: will he confess for a mild sentence, or will he continue to fight for his acquittal?
Five years ago, when Rupert Stadler was in prison, the former top manager had a lot of time to think. Before that, he had been CEO of Audi for eleven years, and the automaker’s involvement in the Volkswagen Group’s diesel scandal put Stadler in custody for four and a half months. He once confided in his home newspaper that he wanted to make a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
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“On such a pilgrimage,” said Stadler, who attended a monastery school in Catholic Eichstätt as a boy, “one finds inner peace and oneself again.” He hopes to complete the Way of St. James before he is 70 years old.