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Hamm/Bonn (ots)
The German judiciary lacks about 1,000 criminal judges and prosecutors, and politicians have not yet done enough to change the situation, according to the accusation of the president of the German Association of Judges (DRB), Joachim Lüblinghoff. “The politicians are aware of this and it is also stated in the coalition agreement that they want to change it, but it is simply not being implemented,” Lüblinghoff complained in the Phoenix interview. The New Year’s riots in Berlin, by the way, could set in motion a rethink. “As sad as events like New Year’s Eve are, it shakes politics. And we assume it will be the same this time,” said Lüblinghoff, who works as a judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court. He thinks financial incentives are needed to make public service attractive to lawyers. “The civil service is also unattractive because the economy does not sleep. It is financially much more attractive to work elsewhere. We in the public sector can advertise with ethics and recognition, but in the long run that is not the only thing that matters, including recognition financial there has to be,” said the president of the German Association of Judges.
After the New Year’s Eve incidents, Justice Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) had called for the incidents to be adjudicated quickly. “This wish has already been fulfilled and the first judgments have now been made,” says Lüblinghoff. “Obviously it is important to have enough judges and prosecutors to be able to fulfill this wish, and this varies greatly in the federal states,” added the president of the German Association of Judges.
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