Crime: Frankfurt police officer charged with coercion

The Frankfurt public prosecutor has charged a police officer on suspicion of coercion in a particularly serious case. The charges were filed at the district court in Frankfurt on September 14th, a press spokesman for the investigative agency confirmed several media reports.

The officer is said to have told a man taken into custody on the night of December 10, 2024 that he was threatened with deportation. If he wanted to prevent this, he would have to beg for it. The man took this seriously and complied with the request to amuse the police officers present.

The accused police officer abused his position as a public official, according to the public prosecutor. The district court must now decide whether to open the main proceedings.

The file remains lying there

The case was only brought to trial after around 21 months because it had not been processed by the public prosecutor's office for a long time. Consequences have already been drawn internally from this, said the spokesman.