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Hamburg advocates in the federal government to equate the forgery of vaccination and PCR test certificates with forgery of documents and thus to be able to punish them more severely.
So far, the forgery of health certificates has been treated differently in criminal law than the forgery of documents, said Justice Senator Anna Gallina (Greens) of the German Press Agency.
"The range of punishment is much lower in the corresponding cases and the criminal offense contains further inconsistencies." There is a need for reform here.
In an application for the Justice Ministers' Conference in June, the federal government should therefore be asked to review the rules "and to eliminate this imbalance," stressed Gallina.
"The aim must be to equate false health certificates and falsification of documents and to check the regulations for a need for reform."
Even the attempt remains unpunished
Against the background of the removal of corona restrictions for fully vaccinated people, fake vaccination passports are being offered for sale on the Internet.
Since it is a false health certificate, the penal code provides for a maximum of one year imprisonment.
Particularly difficult cases, such as gang or commercial inspection, are not provided.
Even the attempt remains unpunished.
The situation is different with forgery of documents, which in particularly serious cases can be punished with up to ten years imprisonment.
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The Hamburg authority criticizes the different classifications of the various corona test certificates that show the absurdity of the current legal situation. For example, the company corona test certificates that can be used for visits to the hairdresser and events and a large part of the rapid tests do not constitute health certificates because they are not issued by doctors. A forgery would therefore be a forgery of documents. The falsification of PCR tests and vaccination certificates, which offer more security and should be presented to an authority, is not.