BERLIN – A German woman has taken her male neighbour to court for noise pollution after he repeatedly kept her awake through half the night and had at least one four-hour sex session, a court spokeswoman says.

“Four hours of sex noises. What was I supposed to think? It was nothing but groaning and banging,” the woman told the judge, a Bild newspaper report on Friday said.

The woman told Berlin magistrates that her 25-year old neighbour Andreas G. was disturbing the peace by keeping her awake early in the morning.

Andreas said his 26-year old neighbour had complained in the past, calling at five in the afternoon, but that he had not felt obliged to respond. “I can have as much sex as loud as I want then,” he said.

The judge dropped the case on learning that the man had since moved out of the apartment.