Serious accusation by a neighbour

If you don't know who it was, how do you know she was banging on your door? Or that it was a woman, for that matter?

I doubt the mgmt company will tell you who it was, and unless you can prove it was done maliciously, you don't have much grounds for defamation.

What injury has been done to your reputation? Who thinks any the less of you because of this incident? How has the injury to your reputation affected you?

There's no legal remedy for hurt feelings. You need to show concrete ways in which this inaccurate accusation has caused you injury.

Since you have an airtight alibi - dont tell us half a story - what were you accused of?

OP, if it is a serious allegation I think you should have a word with the gardai, tell them what happened and ask them to make a note of it. Also inform the management that it has been reported.

It could be that someone has it in for you, so it's better that everyone knows that that person makes up porkies, especially the gardai, before you're accused of something for which you don't have an alibi.

Drama much?

Yes they should be held accountable about for being wrong. They banged on a door, of an unoccupied apartment. They could apologise to the door.

Not sure what else you are expecting. They thought you did something, you were supposedly away. so they've been told it wasn't you. If this were actually a very serious allegation, the guards would be involved. Most likely it's something trivial like a noise complaint or parking in the wrong sport.

It's an apartment. There are interconnected walls and doors.

Reverberations reverberate.

In this case the other apartment residents should take a case against the person banging on the door.

Depends on the lease.

OP if you don't think it could be proven that it was malicious then I don't think you have a leg to stand on. I work in an environment where we get whistleblowing of potential wrong doing. Part of the fundamental process is that an assumption is there that all accusations are made in good faith & that there is no retaliation of whistleblowers due to this. Only if there is overwhelming evidence that the complaint was malicious in nature would we pursue that. It's very difficult to prove malicious intent.

The door was assaulted…….and needs urgent redress!!

OP doesn't know who the neighbour was.

I am not quite sure if the OP stated that. The OP stated that he was not informed on who made the compliant however in the first post he referred to the complianant as ''she'' continually. I suspect they have had interactions with someone in the apartment complex before.

Maybe even there alibi is suspect it very easy to turn on Alexia full blast remotely for a few minutes

I suspect he has a fair idea who it was. Probably someone who has taken a dislike to him and that's why he should protect himself if he is in the right.

I would say that the minimum that the OP should get is an apology from the neighbors. For what ever reason it was, the neighbors got it wrong and made an accusation. There has to be consequences for this type of behaviour and I'd say an apology is the least the neighbor should asked to give.

Neighbor got it wrong and needs to apologise to the OP.

Some people think everything is a serious issue.

I know. That's what I was trying to say. Most places will have a policy of no retaliation for a report made in good faith. Malicious reporting of something would need a lot of evidence behind it (history of harassment, repeated reporting of same person etc) and even then it's risky.

OP has said it was serious, but they are pretty lax on the details.

Depends on what the accusation was. Falsely accusing somebody of assault is very different to playing music after 10pm. There is clearly information being withheld.

Documented by the cards how? It a complaint to the owners corporation, involving the guards is a bit ott.

It is as you said originally a very serious allegation and shame about the 'after hours' like responses you have received.

It's a very weird one and if it was me I would want answers to a lot of questions.

1. What evidence was there? - Did the accuser see someone with a camera or see photos?

2. Was I mentioned by name, by description, or simply by apartment window guesswork by the accuser?

3. How can I be accused of being anti-kids? What is that based on?

The fact they said 'anti-kids' in general makes me assume they know who you are, at least they know your face and have taken a disliking to you.

My original advice stands. Talk to the gardai and ask their advice and ask them to make a note of it. Basically just let it be known that you went to the gardai first in case any further trouble ensues. Tell the management company you have done so in the hope it gets back to the accuser to give them a bit of a fright. It will also make you look better to the management company imo.

I'm not saying be dramatic or hostile btw as other people said. Just be friendly and open in your dealings with those authorities.

You're not going to find out who made this complaint.

The main thing you need to be reassured about is that the people to whom the complaint was made understand that it is entirely baseless. And it seems they do.

There's no reason at all to think there was any malice involved, so we have to proceed on the basis that this was a genuine mistake, perhaps committed by somebody who was acting over-hastily, because their sensitivity to the possibility of child abuse was running ahead of the actual facts and evidence.

An apology from the person who made the complaint is not going to be forthcoming; they probably think that being hyper-vigilant about dangers to children is nothing to apologise for.

And I would not stress about this; the apology is comparatively unimportant. Whatever damage might have been done to your reputation by this mistaken allegation — and, fortunately, it seems there was none — would not be in any way mitigated by an apology given to you. If, hypothetically, a neighbour heard banging at your door and loud accusations of perversion being yelled through it, they might have their doubts about you, but those doubts would not be assuaged by an apology given to you; your neighbour would never know about the apology.

Any action you take to demand accounts, explanations, apologies, fuller investigations, etc simply keeps the matter alive and current, and reinforces in the mind of more and more people that you were accused of shonky behaviour. Even though the allegation made against you is entirely false, it cannot possibly be to your advantage to call continued attention to the fact that the allegation was made. And doing this for the sake of an entirely useless apology would be . . . unwise.

1. Never had any complaints made against me and have never made any complaints against anyone.
2. I was accused of recording videos of children/taking pictures of children, and also being "anti-children".
3. The person who made the accusations has not apologised, I don't know who they are. It was the management company who apologised.

Ok then? Did you read your own post?

Never had any complaints but accused of recording children/taking pictures of children. Is that not classed as a complaint?

It’s not that bizarre really. The OP has gone from knowing nothing about the complaint or who made it, to posting his let me clear things up 1 - 5 post. Who came to him and told him all this, he said earlier the management company won’t tell him who made the complaint or what the complaint is.

that’s bizarre to me.