By Chris Cottrell
He had received threatening letters, even a dead mouse in a package. His car had been vandalized. So when the mayor of the small Black Forest town of Rickenbach reported that he had been the victim of a criminal assault, it at first seemed plausible.
The mayor, Norbert Moosmann, told the police that someone had thrown a Molotov cocktail through his office window, one that proved to be empty but sent him into a panic. He said that when he tried to flee, he found his door had been jammed shut.
And Moosmann, who is gay, had his share of enemies around town. He had not worked in a year, instead collecting disability after receiving a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. In famously industrious Germany, that did not sit well with some of the townspeople.
But his story came apart once the police had a chance to examine the video from a security camera outside the town hall around the time of the assault. It showed a car stopping in front of the building and a not particularly menacing-looking man getting out ? empty-handed.
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Source: The New York Times
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