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Faeser insists on "sensitive prison sentences" for violent New Year's Eve offenders

2023-01-02T10:46:18.794Z


After the escalations on New Year's Eve, Interior Minister Faeser is pushing for consistent criminal prosecution of those who throw firecrackers at the fire brigade and police. However, she wants to refrain from tightening the law.


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Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD)

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In Berlin in particular, emergency services from the fire brigade and police were repeatedly attacked with firecrackers on New Year's Eve.

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) is now demanding harsh punishment for the "chaotic and violent offenders".

Faeser said in Berlin that anyone who attacked rescue workers or police officers on New Year's Eve should definitely face criminal consequences.

The SPD politician, on the other hand, does not consider it necessary to change the law again.

"The penal provisions for the protection of police and rescue workers have been tightened considerably in recent years - and rightly so," said Faeser.

Now it shows how necessary the change in the law of 2017 was.

It is crucial that these penal provisions are now applied and enforced with all consistency.

"Sensitive prison sentences can be imposed with it," emphasized the minister.

"Hard Judgments" for targeted attacks

The federal chairman of the police union (GdP), Jochen Kopelke, said: "Every targeted attack on a person in uniform must lead to investigations and a court hearing with a harsh sentence".

In addition, every attack on police employees must be recorded, because this is the only way to create a realistic picture.

Good psychological and pastoral care for the emergency services as well as sufficient service sports, cures and rehabilitation periods are also necessary.

In several cities, police and rescue workers were hindered in their work on New Year's Eve and fired on with firecrackers and rockets.

Nowhere, however, did these attacks take on such proportions as in Berlin.

The fire brigade and police counted a total of 33 injured emergency services in the capital.

In May 2017, the law to strengthen the protection of law enforcement officers and rescue workers came into force.

Since then, attacks on police officers, investigating prosecutors, military police and other security forces can be punished with up to five years in prison.

Previously, there had only been a special threat of punishment for attacks during enforcement actions such as arrests, since the reform also during any other official action.

Likewise protected are by the change forces of the fire brigade, the civil protection and the rescue services.

With the debate about criminal prosecution, a new discussion about a ban on firecrackers on New Year's Eve starts.

Among others, Berlin's Senator for Culture, Klaus Lederer (left), has spoken out in favor of introducing a nationwide ban on sales.

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Source: spiegel

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