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A firefighter stands at the scene of the accident in Berlin in January 2018
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Almost three years after the fatal collision between a radio patrol car and a young woman's car in Berlin, a police officer was sentenced to a suspended sentence.
The Berlin-Tiergarten district court found the 53-year-old police chief inspector guilty of negligent homicide and imposed a prison sentence of one year and two months on probation.
The young woman, who was about to park near Alexanderplatz, was rammed by the police car in her small car in January 2018.
The 21-year-old died at the accident site.
According to an expert opinion, the officer was traveling too fast - at 134 kilometers per hour.
When it hit the woman's small car, the police vehicle is said to have been 90 kilometers per hour.
The officer who was behind the wheel was silent in the process.
The fatal collision had attracted a lot of attention.
It was only months after the start of the investigation that it became known that a blood sample taken from the driver in the hospital should have contained alcohol.
The suspicion arose that this was being covered up.
The police officer's medical file, which was confiscated by the public prosecutor, was not allowed to be used as evidence.
Therefore, the trial was not about endangering road traffic from alcohol.
The murdered woman's parents, who were prosecuting the trial as co-plaintiffs, had demanded a four-year prison sentence.
They held on to the charge that the officer was drunk.
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