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Munich (dpa) - In the doping trial against Erfurt doctor Mark S. and four accomplices, the judgments are pending.
After 23 days of taking evidence and pleading, the District Court of Munich II today decides how the five defendants and above all the medical practitioner as the organizer of sports fraud will be punished for years of blood doping against a number of winter athletes and cyclists.
Anti-doping fighters ask for a stiff penalty, mainly as a deterrent.
According to the defense, Mark S. was not a villain, rather the whole sport was sick.
For the Anti-Doping Act of 2015, the procedure is the first major test.
ACTs: The original indictment mentioned nearly 150 individual acts.
The court summarized these per season and athlete.
This resulted in 26 units of crime, committed by twelve athletes.
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EVIDENCE: All five defendants made confessions.
Mark S. admitted to being the head of the group.
This was also confirmed by chat logs from secured cell phones.
Athletes testified that they felt in good hands with the doctor and were therefore not afraid for their health.
Once the Erfurt native accidentally injected an athlete with a preparation that was not intended for use on humans.
The public prosecutor's office regards this as dangerous bodily harm.
PENALTY: Chief Public Prosecutor Kai Gräber wants to achieve a prison sentence of five and a half years for Mark S. as the head of the group;
the defenders hope for a maximum of around three years.
Dirk Q. as the most important helper should get two and a half years, according to the prosecutor, his lawyers pleaded for two years.
The other three accomplices are preparing for probation or fines.
SIGNAL: Officials and anti-doping fighters hope for heavy sentences.
The German athletes' association, too, would like a clear judgment to be an “important sign” in the fight against backers and doping beneficiaries.
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EVALUATION: Because the case is the first German trial in top-class sport since the introduction of the Anti-Doping Act in 2015, this is being applied for the first time by the criminal chamber in Munich.
It remains to be seen whether the law is effective - improvements are already being made, for example through a leniency program.
DOSB President Alfons Hörmann sees the law as proven through the process alone.
“State investigators can simply be better, clearer and more uncompromising.
None of us sports officials would ever be able to get into the apartment or hotel room of an athlete and catch someone red-handed as he is exchanging the blood bag, "he told the" Main Post "this week.
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