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Corona fines make the cash register ring

2020-12-09T23:28:26.780Z


If the mask is missing: In these communities, people are most likely to violate the Infection Protection Act. Citizens have paid a fine of 57,000 euros since March.


If the mask is missing: In these communities, people are most likely to violate the Infection Protection Act.

Citizens have paid a fine of 57,000 euros since March.

District

- No mask, no safety distance or too many households together: Since the first lockdown in March, the district office has recorded 650 cases because citizens have violated the Infection Protection Act.

According to Jan Köhnen, team leader for health and consumer protection, most of the ads were in the larger communities.

First and foremost Ebersberg (120), closely followed by Poing (119) and Vaterstetten (88).

In the meantime, there was not a single complaint in the smaller communities such as Baiern, Bruck or Egmating.

According to Köhnen, the reason for this is that more people live close together in the larger communities.

This would lead to "friction" more quickly.

In addition, large public places where many people meet, such as the shopping center in Ebersberg, also caused higher numbers of violations.

Every community with S-Bahn has more violations

This was also confirmed by the Poingen police chief Helmut Hintereder.

“You can pin the number of violations to the crime rate of the communities,” he explains.

Every municipality that has an S-Bahn station would almost automatically get higher numbers, as many people meet there.

In communities like Anzing, Forstinning or Pliening, where “the world is still in order”, there are only bus stops where no one or only one is standing.

There, the risk of being infected with the corona virus is lower.

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The number of registered violations of the Infection Protection Act.

Ebersberg has the most cases, followed by Poing and Vaterstetten.

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Especially adolescents and young adolescents who meet in groups are responsible for a large part of the numbers, says district office employee Köhnen.

Ebersberg's police chief Ulrich Milius explains that the young people often have to meet in the S-Bahn after school.

"That's only natural.

They are allowed to have contact in the S-Bahn, then they get off, walk down the street and then sit on a bench, ”he says.

And again it is a violation of the Infection Protection Act.

Local residents and neighbors who were bothered by noise or trampling often called the police.

"Most of the calls come in as a disturbance of the peace, suspicious perception or something else," says Hintereder.

For example at a birthday party or bullying drunkards.

Only then does it become apparent that there is a violation of the Infection Protection Act on top of this.

Most of the reports come from the police patrol duty.

District of Ebersberg: around 57,000 euros in fine

Around 100 incidents have been continuously processed by the district office since March.

The violations are punished according to the publicly available Corona fine catalog with sums between 150 and 5000 euros, explains Köhnen.

However, the authority has a margin of discretion where it can deviate with the sums.

"For a student or trainee who earns no or only a training salary, we deviate from the fine because it would be disproportionate," says Köhnen.

A total of around 57,000 euros in fines had been received in the district, although some of these amounts were still under appeal.

Reports due to Infection Protection Act: 58 proceedings suspended

However, not all reports result in a fine: 58 proceedings were discontinued, for example because the offense could not be proven.

Or for reasons of discretion.

“If about three young people who have just turned 14 apologize and show remorse, or if two people helped an old man move,” according to Köhnen, this can lead to the proceedings being discontinued.

The "predominant part" of the violations would occur in the private sector.

Especially on the holidays, says Köhnen.

This is due to the fact that the contact restrictions do not have to be observed in the professional environment.

The expert explains that a completely possible fact is eliminated.

540 of the cases have already been closed, 110 are still being processed.

Raffael Scherer

Source: merkur

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