A 20-year-old man who is charged in the tree-felling case was in shock when two of his friends felled a large tree, which fell onto a road in the middle of the night in Sorø.
He says this when he gives evidence in the Court in Næstved on Wednesday.
– I was in a panic, so me and someone else decided to drive away. We didn’t want to be part of it, he says.
He drove with another to a remote road two kilometers from the tree and waited while the tree was felled. After 20 minutes, they received a call that “something bad had happened”, explains the 20-year-old in court.
He is one of the six young men charged with manslaughter in the tree felling case.
On March 13 last year, shortly after midnight, the tree – a 35 meter high fir tree with a diameter of 116 centimeters – fell across a road and hit a car. A 55-year-old secondary school teacher who was at the wheel died instantly.
The six men are also charged with causing imminent danger to someone’s life and vandalism.
The men who gave evidence agree that it was two of the men who felled the tree with a chainsaw and wedges.
One of those who cut down the tree has previously explained that it happened because they were bored.
– There was some tension in it. We wanted to wreak havoc and block traffic, he has previously said in court.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
