Before his everyday life as an AfD politician, Richard Graupner was a police officer. In this function he had access to the internal police system - and is said to have passed on information from it to an acquaintance. This has not been proven for Graupner's defenders. Now a court judges.
Schweinfurt (dpa / lby) - On Monday (9.15 a.m.) the district court of Schweinfurt wants to pronounce the verdict for the member of parliament Richard Graupner, who is said to have passed on official secrets as a police officer. For the defense of the AfD politician, the allegations of the public prosecutor's office have not been proven - as in the first trial before the district court of Schweinfurt, they are demanding an acquittal. The prosecution, on the other hand, wants the 59-year-old to be sentenced to a fine of 120 daily rates of 200 euros each.
The district court first dealt with the allegations - including unauthorized data acquisition - a year ago. Because the public prosecutor's office appealed after Graupner's acquittal in October 2021, the case ended up before the district court.
According to the prosecution, Graupner passed on official secrets during his time as a police officer. At the time, he headed a search group for the traffic police in Schweinfurt-Werneck. An acquaintance of Graupner had difficulties with the police and was being investigated for resisting law enforcement officers. The man claims to have received information from the internal police system about his case from a police officer, he told the police at the time. He left it open whether it was Chief Inspector Graupner.
Because of the two administrative offenses - the unauthorized data acquisition - the public prosecutor also pleaded for a fine of 500 euros each. Here, too, the politician's defense demanded an acquittal.
At the time, the district court did not see sufficient evidence in its judgment that the 59-year-old had revealed information about the investigation. There are clear indications that Graupner was a perpetrator. Residual doubts cannot be completely eliminated, it said.
The 59-year-old has been a member of the state parliament for the AfD since 2018. Before that he was active in local politics in Schweinfurt, including for the Republicans. The allegations come from 2018, before his time as a member of the state parliament.
