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The Traunstein district court sentenced a criminal police officer to eleven months’ imprisonment on probation for foiling the punishment in office and for wearing Nazi symbols.
According to a spokeswoman, the court found it proven that the 53-year-old man had not initiated an investigation against another official, despite the fact that he was the author of a racist talk.
The convict, who worked in the state security department, had also hung a collage in his office in 2015, which featured swastikas, an SS rune and images of Hitler. Therefore, the court also convicted him of using symbols of unconstitutional organizations.
Colleague started the investigation
The prosecutor had requested a suspended sentence of one year and eight months. The man’s defense attorney had asked for acquittal. According to Bayerischer Rundfunk, he had questioned the credibility of a colleague of his client. Therefore, the woman had initiated the investigation.
The 53-year-old had apologized for the investigative errors but denied any blame. In his final remarks before the verdict was delivered, he distanced himself from the ideas of the right, according to BR. He has been a police officer for 30 years and has been suspended from his duties for a year and a half.
According to the 2018 indictment, the officer was charged with investigating a colleague for racist talk. Although this was the author, he did not initiate any proceedings against the colleague. Rather, he had presented the officer in his report not as the sender, but as the addressee, without punishment.
Six Berlin Police Students Suspended From Service
The Traunstein case is just one of the many activities of the right that have recently become known to the German police authorities. North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin were affected by the latest scandal involving talkgroups of far-right police officers; the accusations were also directed against constitutional protection officials at NRW.
Meanwhile, six are allowed in Berlin. Police students do not continue their education at the University of Law and Economics. “We have a clear stance, it’s about character suitability for the policing profession and loyalty to the constitution,” said spokesman Thilo Cablitz.
The Berlin prosecutor’s office is investigating a total of seven suspects for alleged hate speech. One person did not participate in the chats in such a serious way as to be able to pronounce a ban on official business like the other six, he said.
The defendants are accused of having sent messages with inhuman content in a chat group with 26 members. According to the prosecution, individual notifications claiming that swastikas were used also targeted asylum seekers in a racist and derogatory manner.
The genocide of the Jews was downplayed in other news. A police officer reported the case.
