A 32-year-old man with eleven prior convictions faces charges for stealing 32 electric and regular bikes valued at over 130,000 euros between June and October 2024.

He is also accused of two bodily injury offenses: strangling and beating an accomplice, and breaking a worker’s little finger with a plastic baseball bat during a dispute over a parking spot.

His 28-year-old girlfriend is also charged for renting a storage room to store stolen goods and for scratching the victim’s head and face during the baseball bat incident.

The defendant admitted to almost all charges but claimed the baseball bat assault was not intentional as the bat was plastic and he did not know it could break bones.

The court sentenced him to four years in prison and gave his girlfriend a five-month suspended sentence, rejecting diversion requests due to the extent of the damage and evidence.

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