From BZ/dpa
Since the beginning of 2022, the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has initiated or processed at least 102 criminal investigations due to suspected politically motivated crimes in the police service.
This emerges from the response of the Berlin Senate to a request from the Greens about right-wing extremist tendencies in the security authorities. “Spiegel” first reported about this on Saturday. The paper is available to the German Press Agency.
Of the above-mentioned proceedings on possible crimes, 78 cases involved insults, eleven times bodily harm, ten times incitement to hatred, nine times related to symbols of unconstitutional or terrorist organizations and once a possible violation of the War Weapons Control Act. Of these, 38 procedures are open. In four cases there was a penalty order and one case was arraigned before a criminal judge. 61 proceedings were discontinued.
The answer also mentions 61 internal disciplinary proceedings relating to politically motivated official misconduct against civil servants. According to the information, six proceedings were legally concluded as of the end of August – two with fines and four with the proceedings being discontinued.
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The two Green MPs who made the request were critical. “Once again, the high number of politically motivated official misconduct demonstrates the structural dimension of right-wing extremism within the police,” explained Ario Mirzaie, spokesman for strategies against the right.
Vasili Franco, spokesman for domestic policy, criticized: “Criminal and disciplinary proceedings that have been initiated often come to nothing and are discontinued.” In the future, investigations against police officers should be conducted by independent bodies, he said.