Overview
- Judge at the Hamburg District Court sentenced the defendant to four years for aggravated residential burglary in conjunction with property damage.
- He admitted entering the Eppendorf penthouse with an accomplice, said he was paid €15,000, and apologized directly to Meis in court.
- The court found the pair climbed scaffolding to the fifth floor and forced the penthouse terrace door to access her dressing room.
- Meis testified to enduring trauma, describing panic attacks and a year of disrupted sleep, and said the ordeal also frightened her son.
- The stolen handbags and jewelry valued at about €530,000 have not been recovered, the insurer compensated her, and investigators say the burglars appeared to monitor her social-media activity while she was away.