JVA Augsburg-Gablingen: Public prosecutor recordsdata prices | EUROtoday

The public prosecutor’s workplace has filed prices within the case of the alleged mistreatment of prisoners within the Bavarian correctional facility (JVA) Augsburg-Gablingen. The former head, the previous deputy head and a former member of the safety group have been charged with 131 crimes in opposition to a complete of 102 prisoners, because the prosecution introduced on Tuesday. The three defendants have been launched since autumn 2024.

The public prosecutor’s workplace accuses the accused of deprivation of liberty, coercion and bodily hurt. As the investigators introduced, the previous deputy head of the jail, as the principle accused, is alleged to have established “a system of arbitrariness” from January 2023. Prisoners are stated to have been harassed and generally bodily abused. The Ministry of Justice, the general public prosecutor’s workplace and the courts are stated to have been intentionally deceived.

The former head of the establishment is alleged to have been partially conscious of the actions of her former consultant and to have accepted and supported them. This additionally applies to the previous worker of the safety group. The prisoners affected by the mistreatment are stated to have repeatedly been housed in specifically secured cells which might be really meant for prisoners who pose a hazard to others or themselves.

According to the indictment, lodging in these detention rooms is meant as an exception. In Gablingen, nonetheless, these are stated to have been intentionally misused, used too typically or for too lengthy. This was meant to harass prisoners.

The deputy head of the jail is alleged to have ordered in a lot of circumstances that the prisoners have been withheld primary tools within the type of mattresses or different mattresses and paper underpants. The prisoners are stated to have been pressured to spend a number of days unclothed on the naked ground.

The indictment is predicated on a complete of 117 circumstances of intentionally unlawful detention in a specifically secured detention room by the previous deputy head of the establishment. The Augsburg regional courtroom should now resolve whether or not to confess the costs.