Mannheim/Weinheim (dpa/lsw) - The public prosecutor's office in Mannheim is contesting the verdict in one of the largest trials for false mask certificates during the corona pandemic. The judgment of the Weinheim District Court against a doctor for issuing false health certificates does not correspond to the ideas of the prosecution, said their spokesman for the German Press Agency on Wednesday. In order to obtain a harsher sentence, an appeal was filed with the district court.
The district court had sentenced the doctor to two years and nine months in prison on Monday - it's about 4247 cases. In addition, it imposed a three-year professional ban and a provisional ban on working immediately. In addition, around 28,000 euros are to be confiscated, which the woman had taken for the exemption from the mask requirement. The spokesman for the public prosecutor said that the prison sentence was too light from the prosecution's point of view. The defense had asked for an acquittal.
In addition, the court had sentenced an employee of the Weinheim doctor to a fine for aiding and abetting. Nationwide, people would have ordered and received appropriate certificates - without the doctor examining them or even having knowledge of any previous illnesses.
