The story of Pascal Kaiser’s proposal to his boyfriend at a Cologne match has taken another dark turn.
The amateur referee was applauded by the 50,000 in attendance after receiving a yes pitch side at the end of January.
However, in the following days he reported insults and threats on his social media before a homophobic attack at his home where he showed a black eye.
Now, German press agency AFP have reported that authorities are suspicions that the attack wasb staged.
When contacted by AFP, the Cologne public prosecutor’s office confirmed that a man was under investigation in the city “based on initial suspicions of fabricating a criminal offense.”
“Based on these suspicions, a search of the suspect’s home was conducted, during which evidence was seized,” they stated in a press release.
The man in question is “suspected of having faked attacks of which he claimed to be the victim and of having himself written and sent threatening messages supposedly intended for him,” the prosecutor’s office also stated.
Pascal Kaiser declined to respond publicly to these accusations, with his lawyer emphasizing to the local newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger that “no conclusions could be drawn” from them.
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