The prosecutor speaks of a “parallel world”.

How can you drift off like that, he wonders.

"It still leaves me speechless." The district court sentenced a police officer to a fine of 13,200 euros on Tuesday in a lawsuit about the drug scandal at the Munich police force for various drug and doping offenses.

The court imposed 240 daily rates of 55 euros for the acquisition and possession of drugs and doping substances and the passing on of doping substances.

The judge gave him credit for the fact that it was always about small amounts and that he had "turned away from drugs" for a long time.

To his detriment she reckoned that he had done some of his dealings with the doping substances in the police station.

Convict was responsible for drug controls

The court acquitted the man, who worked as a so-called “drug multiplier” for the police and trained colleagues for patrol duty and drug checks, of the most serious charge of breach of custody.

Prosecutors, who had asked for a suspended sentence of one year and five months, accused the suspended police officer of diverting seized marijuana and using it himself.

Corresponding chat histories with a colleague, which at least suggested such an act, were not enough for the court as evidence.

The accused, who was born in 1994, made a partial confession at the start of the trial at the Munich District Court last week and admitted to being involved in the scandal that shook the Munich Presidium.

He admitted to having consumed drugs and doping substances, but denied the breach of custody, i.e. the diverting of the marijuana.

Preliminary proceedings against 37 police officers

The scandal became public in 2020 after a major raid.

At the center of the story about police officers taking cocaine is a drug dealer who got the investigation rolling after he revealed his uniformed customers as a key witness and reported about cop discounts on cocaine - and about absurd situations such as coke coke with cops in the underground car park after they had helped him jump-start his car.

For years, the so-called "Soko Nightlife" had investigated the matter.

Prosecutors conducted 39 investigations against 37 police officers and filed six charges.

15 proceedings were discontinued, according to spokeswoman Anne Leiding, a penal order was requested in twelve cases - even if it involved very large amounts of money.

The reasons for this, according to the public prosecutor's office: Corona and the desire not to further damage the reputation of the police through public main negotiations on the matter.

The process that has now been completed is the second process in the cocaine scandal that is currently being dealt with by the Munich district court.

At the same time, the trial of a 28-year-old, who had confessed his involvement in tears, is still ongoing.

There could be a verdict on Friday.

For the police officer convicted on Tuesday, however, the matter is now over.

Both he and the public prosecutor announced in the courtroom that they would accept the verdict and that they would not appeal.

With that it is legal.

And the suspended official, who says he still receives 60 percent of his original salary, no longer wants to have anything to do with the police in the future.

He also has a "feeling of shame".

In May he wants to start a new job – “in the private sector”.