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Negotiations on the protection of rescuers failed
The federal government wanted to better protect police officers and rescue workers from attacks. For the time being, nothing becomes. The Union shares the concern, but considers the draft law to be insufficient.
Advice from the SPD, Greens, FDP and Union on a planned law to protect police officers, emergency services and volunteers have failed. This means that the proposal before the Bundestag election is no longer coordinated. “Instead of developing sustainable solutions together, the Union stubbornly insists in its own position – a blockage keeping that is held on the back of our emergency services,” said Johannes Fechner (SPD) of the German Press Agency. This now also means that the planned penalty of punishment, which should have been amended for cases in which perpetrators are ambushed by police officers or rescue workers in order to attack them.
In September, the Federal Cabinet launched measures for the better protection of emergency services and volunteers. At that time, the FDP was still involved in the government, the responsible Federal Minister of Justice was called Marco Buschmann. The draft law provides for several additions to the Criminal Code in order to better record attacks on emergency services, police officers or volunteers. The coercion of politically committed and members of a municipal council or the European Parliament should also be punished. In addition, with the draft law, the deployment and testing of Tasern by the federal police should be made legally secure.
Union wanted higher minimum penalty
The Union had insisted in the consultations to raise the minimum penalty for assault on six months and for insidious attacks and attacks with weapons and dangerous tools to one year. The minimum penalty for assault on enforcement officers is currently three months in prison.
The legal policy spokesman for the Union faction, Günter Krings, told the dpa that his parliamentary group wanted to include the members of the health professions in the protection area. Because increasing violence in hospitals and medical practices is unacceptable. “In contrast, the changes proposed by red-green would not lead to any stricter punishment at all, since they already correspond to the applicable law about other norms,” criticized the CDU politician.
Fechner said it was wrong that the Union only wanted to extend criminal protection on the staff of health professions. Journalists, bus drivers, volunteers and local politicians also earned better protection.
dpa
Source: Stern
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