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Government – Saarbrücken – Saarland for harsher penalties for violence against emergency services – Politics

Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) – Saar Interior Minister Klaus Bouillon (CDU) has spoken out in favor of harsher penalties for violence against emergency services. Probably together with Hesse, Saarland will launch a corresponding Federal Council initiative, Bouillon announced on Tuesday in Saarbrücken. It should provide for a minimum imprisonment sentence of six months for physical attacks on law enforcement officers. So far, the Criminal Code provides for a range of penalties of three months to five years.

According to Bouillon, the interior ministers of all federal states recently approved this request at their conference. “It’s about time. We can’t wait any longer,” said Bouillon, also referring to the riots in Stuttgart last weekend. There were dangerous physical injuries and in some cases murder attempts. “We are challenged here,” said the minister. He assumes that penalties will be tightened this year.

Hesse’s Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) said incidents like those in Stuttgart or Dietzenbach, where the fire brigade and police were apparently deliberately ambushed, must be unequivocally ostracized. Anyone who acts against emergency services should not get away with a fine. Unfortunately, with the current minimum sentence of three months, this is all too often the case. “Only from a minimum sentence of six months do we make it unmistakably clear: Whoever attacks emergency services goes to jail,” said Beuth.

Bouillon emphasized that such attacks were also taking place in the Saarland. The number of such offenses rose from 420 in 2018 to 478 last year. According to the minister, there are also complaints that too many proceedings are being dropped in this context. “It’s frustrating for the people being attacked.”

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