Herbert dies
The presiding judge of the 13th civil division wanted to ask the automanager for a statement in the ZDF talk show by Markus Lanz.
Duisburg Without VW-Boss Herbert dies. whose personal appearance had been ordered, the Duisburg district court on Tuesday on damages claims against the auto company negotiated. The proceedings concern the automatic shutdown for diesel vehicles classified as a defect by the Federal Court of Justice.
The presiding judge of the 13th civil division wanted to ask the automanager for a statement in the ZDF talk show by Markus Lanz, There, Diess had said, “What we did was cheating.”
That statement is clearly linked to an earlier punishment of VW fallen in California in the 1970s and have nothing to do with the issue Germany had to do, said a lawyer from VW. For the judge, however, it emerges from the course of the conversation, “that it was about the current emissions problem”.
The VW lawyer then made a request for bias against the judge. The chairman of the chamber misses the “necessary neutrality”. The application must now be adjudicated by the other judges of the 13th Civil Division and a member of another chamber.
Why the VW boss did not come to Duisburg, the lawyer of the group could say nothing. He had “no knowledge” about this. The judge described this as “completely incomprehensible”. But he did not impose a fine.
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