"Wanted to make meier"

Seven years in prison for pretty robbery “decoy”

The two defendants in the Vienna Regional Court were in custody until the trial.(Bild: Pratschner Sophie, Krone KREATIV)

In mid-May, a man unsuspectingly opened his apartment door - expecting a young, pretty woman. Instead, the 31-year-old and two companions attacked the drug dealer and robbed him of 1,500 euros. "I was supposed to play the decoy," admits the defendant in Vienna's Landl district and receives a prison sentence for it.

"The victim actually thought he could meet a nice woman," the public prosecutor opens the trial against two defendants in Vienna's regional court. In the morning of May 12, the 31-year-old contacted the young man. "We weren't sober at the time," she admits to the jury. Her defense lawyer Sascha Flatz explains further: "She called the first available drug dealer." 

Defendants wanted to "make dealers miserable"
The 31-year-old took a cab to the victim's apartment together with two friends. "What was the plan?" the presiding judge wanted to know - "That we would make him meier. To take away what he had. I was supposed to play the decoy," admits the defendant. Because when the dealer opened the door to the apartment in Vienna-Meidling, the woman's two companions stormed in, held him and took 1500 euros from the apartment. 

The 31-year-old is said to have stood threateningly in the doorway with a knife the whole time. The five-time convict denies this and the amount of money she took: "It was a one-room apartment with a mattress on the floor. Even the detective said he didn't know where the victim was supposed to have had 1500 euros."

"Nothing at all is true"
The 22-year-old co-defendant - the third is being prosecuted separately - finds clear words for the young woman's statement: "Nothing is true. Not a word!" He would have wanted to and could have paid for the drugs - after all, he would have received unemployment benefit that day ...

But in the end, the panel of lay assessors didn't believe him and sentenced him to three and a half years in prison. The 31-year-old woman, meanwhile, received a seven-year sentence for the aggravated robbery. Her defense lawyer, Sascha Flatz, immediately lodges a full appeal - the verdict is therefore not legally binding.