The district court of Traunstein has sentenced an officer of the criminal police to eleven months imprisonment on probation for thwarting punishment in office and for using Nazi symbols.
According to a spokeswoman, the court saw it as proven that the 53-year-old had not initiated an investigation against another official, even though he was the author of a racist chat.
The convict, who worked in the state security department, had also hung a collage in his office in 2015, on which swastikas, an SS rune and images of Hitler could be seen.
Therefore, the court also sentenced him for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations.
Colleague started an investigation
The prosecutor had asked for a suspended sentence of one year and eight months.
The man's defense attorney had pleaded for acquittal.
According to Bayerischer Rundfunk, he had questioned the credibility of a colleague of his client.
The woman had therefore started the investigation.
The 53-year-old apologized for the investigation errors, but denied any guilt.
In his closing remarks before the verdict was pronounced, he distanced himself from right-wing ideas, according to BR.
He has been a police officer for 30 years and has been suspended from duty for a year and a half.
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According to the 2018 indictment, the officer was charged with investigating a colleague for a racist chat.
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 recipient - free of punishment.
Six Berlin police students suspended from duty
The case from Traunstein is just one of numerous right-wing activities that have recently come to light in German police authorities.
North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin were affected in the latest scandal involving right-wing extremist chat groups of police officers;
the allegations were also directed against officials of the constitution protection in 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 police profession and it's about loyalty to the constitution," said spokesman Thilo Cablitz.
The Berlin public prosecutor's office is investigating a total of seven suspects for alleged incitement to hatred.
One person did not take part in the chats in such a serious way to be able to pronounce a ban on official business as the other six, it said.
The accused are accused of having sent messages with inhuman content in a chat group with 26 members.
According to the public prosecutor's office, individual notices in which swastikas are said to have been used were also directed against asylum seekers in a racist and contemptuous manner.
The genocide of the Jews was played down in other news.
A police officer reported the case.
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