This also applies to the private sector of civil servants. Police in Lower Franconia: xenophobia “not a structural problem” Such an attitude is in no way compatible with the role model function and duties of the police in society. The Lower Franconia Police Headquarters emphasized in its press release that it stands for “zero tolerance” for any form of racism, democracy or xenophobia in its own ranks. Police headquarters do not want to condone racism
The third party was transferred to a different department, the police headquarters said in a message. In addition, disciplinary proceedings were initiated against the officials: both convicts were suspended shortly after the investigation began. The police headquarters then informed the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office responsible for internal investigations, among other things. According to its own statements, the Lower Franconian police headquarters had taken disciplinary measures against the apparently xenophobic police officers when the investigation began in 2020. The case against a policewoman was discontinued after a monetary condition was paid. The police headquarters did not disclose the amount of the fine. Another officer was fined, among other things, for trespassing and violation of official secrecy. The court found it proven that a policeman was guilty of trespassing and violating his or her personal sphere of life and personal rights by taking pictures. Policeman gets one year and two months probationĪs the police headquarters in Lower Franconia announced, one of the three defendants received a prison term of one year and two months – on probation. They too were suspended from duty for the time being.
In addition, evaluations of the cell phone revealed that two other officers had exchanged messages with xenophobic content with the accused. The video shows how the officers drive through a puddle with the company car in winter temperatures and spray a group of immigrants wet. Among other things, they discovered a private cell phone video that “potentially suggests a xenophobic sentiment” on the part of the condemned, said the police headquarters. In the course of the investigation, police officers came across further incriminating details about the two defendants. Police officers exchange xenophobic messages The two police officers are also said to have caused one resident to buy drugs from another resident as a decoy. A small amount of cannabis found was then said to have been given to an informant as a reward. In addition, the two police officers are said to have searched several rooms in the facility with a kind of master key together with a 27-year-old police officer without a search warrant. A resident of the anchor center is said to have been threatened with the words “I will kill you”. The background is, among other things, incidents in autumn 2019. Two officers from the Schweinfurt police station were convicted on Thursday in the Schweinfurt district court for xenophobic attacks in the Geldersheim anchor center.