After a doctor was sentenced to a suspended sentence for providing false mask certificates, the public prosecutor’s office does not want to accept the verdict. The prosecution has filed an appeal, the spokesman for the Landsberg district court, Thomas Kirschner, reported on Friday. It was initially unclear whether the defense would also appeal. The deadline for appealing against the judgment had not yet expired.
The 60-year-old doctor is accused of issuing a series of mask exemption certificates during the Corona period without examining the patients. Two practice employees are said to have filled out the blank certificates created by the doctor practicing in Kaufering, Upper Bavaria, and forwarded them to recipients throughout Germany.
The doctor became known nationwide during the pandemic due to his negative attitude towards government regulations. Ultimately, he was sentenced in the first instance in Landsberg am Lech to a prison sentence of one year and nine months for issuing incorrect health certificates in 112 cases. The sentence was suspended. The public prosecutor had demanded a three-year prison sentence for the man.
Investigators believe he distributed mask exemptions on a much larger scale. The public prosecutor’s office assumes that there were a total of more than 4,000 false certificates, but only listed some of them in the indictment. The defense attorney, however, had demanded an acquittal for the defendant, but a maximum sentence that could be suspended.