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Bamberg (dpa) - Three former students from a Bamberg high school have received suspended sentences of two years for stolen Abitur examination tasks.
It was a planned act with “criminal energy”, said the judge when the verdict was pronounced on Monday in front of the Bamberg district court.
Two of the accused broke into the director's office in May 2020, broke into the safe and took exams in German, English and Latin.
The 19-year-olds received a youth sentence of nine months for damage to property and theft, with a two-year probationary period.
Since the third defendant had left the building before the tasks were stolen, he received a six-month youth sentence for damage to property, with a two-year probationary period.
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
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"In the beginning it was a thirst for adventure," said one of the defendants.
"Recognition" was also a reason.
At the time of the crime, the then 18-year-olds would not have been aware of the consequences.
According to the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, around 33,000 test subjects were given substitute tasks after the act in May 2020.
In court, the three young men apologized to the injured students, the school, the director and the Ministry of Education.
The public prosecutor's office has demanded a youth sentence of one year for all three defendants, suspended to two years probation.
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Police press release from May 18.
Police press release on the investigation of the perpetrators on July 27th.