Three ex-employees of a nursing home in Hesse will not be prosecuted. The defendants were the former facility manager, the former nursing service manager and his deputy.
During the outbreak in December 2020, all 64 home residents near Hanau were infected with the virus - 17 of them died. The accusation of suspension, which is rather rare in criminal proceedings, involves putting people in a helpless situation or abandoning them and thereby exposing them to "the risk of death or serious damage to their health"