Germany: Asylum seeker rioted at the police station, policeman was fed up — Now the latter has to face trial

With vehemence against the law enforcement officers, with lenience against criminals.
The newspaper Wochenblatt reports:

For a Bavarian police officer, the so-called refugee crisis in autumn 2015 has had quite personal consequences. After a criminal conviction for bodily harm to an Afghan refugee, the 51-year-old police chief commissioner was initially suspended from duty. Next Monday, 18th of March, the tenth chamber of the administrative court Regensburg as disciplinary chamber will have to deal with the case.The federal state of Bavaria wants to degrade the former service group leader – but the administrative judges have to agree first. The following happened in August 2015: Between January and August 2015, more than 310,000 migrants had already entered Germany illegally. Only very few of them had passports with them. The rule of law had reached its limits. In the chaos of 2015, immigration controls and the proper registration of immigrants were de facto non-existent.And yet officers of the Federal Police and the State Police had to deal with migrants time and again. Then it happened that three Afghan youths broke out of their accommodation in Landau and took the train to Landshut without a ticket. The Federal Police picked them up and took them to the Landshut police station. In the rooms of the Landshut police, they not only refused to hand in their fingerprints to establish their identity, but also rioted, fought back with their hands and feet, so that the patrol officers were supported by the service group leader and other colleagues, among others.The service group leader was fed up. To make matters worse, the scanner broke down and the three youths were to be taken to the first floor of the police station to take their fingerprints.The chief police commissioner grabbed a 17-year-old man sitting on the floor, handcuffed and Velcroed to his legs, and pulled the young Afghan’s arms up to the shoulder joint, as the prosecution said. The 17-year-old had screamed in pain and the service group leader had only let him go when he had been asked by colleagues to stop. The police officer was immediately suspended from duty after this act. In an initial trial before the district court, he had not admitted his guilt and had been sentenced to nine months on probation.  The Landshut Regional Court then sentenced him on appeal to 150 daily rates – the policeman had to pay 9,000 euros.He did not want to torture or injure the 17-year-old, who had actively resisted and injured his colleagues, said his lawyer in court at the time. But now it’s about the further consequences of his actions: “The federal state of Bavaria has applied to downgrade his rank,” said a spokesman for the Administrative Court on request. The judges must decide whether a policeman should lose his nerve – or must suffer financial cutbacks up to the end of his life because of such  a course of action, for example with his civil servant pension.

https://www.wochenblatt.de/polizei/regensburg/artikel/278937/asylbewerber-randalierte-auf-der-wache-polizist-tickt-aus-disziplinarverfahren

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