Thuringian AfD member of parliament Torsten Czuppon has been fined for persecuting innocent people. The former police officer must therefore pay 30,000 euros or 150 daily rates of 200 euros each, said a spokesman for the Erfurt district court on Friday.
The verdict was already made on Thursday. The newspapers of Funke Medien Thuringia had previously reported. According to the court, Czuppon himself had handled two cases in which he had filed a complaint.
The background to this is an event at the Buchenwald memorial in November 2017, at which, according to the court spokesman, Czuppon is said to have worn a Thor Steinar T-shirt. Since the memorial considered wearing such a shirt to be a violation of its house rules, it filed a complaint for trespassing. Disciplinary proceedings were then initiated against Czuppon.
According to the spokesman, Czuppon in turn filed a complaint against two witnesses to the incident for defamation and false suspicion. The court now saw it as proven that Czuppon not only filed the complaints – but also handled the proceedings against the two witnesses himself.
According to the court spokesman, the public prosecutor’s office had demanded a prison sentence of one year and four months at the trial – suspended on probation. The defense had pleaded for acquittal. Pursuing innocent people is considered a crime in Germany and can be punished with imprisonment for up to ten years. The Erfurt judgment is not yet final.
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