A police candidate failed with his complaint before the administrative court in Gießen, with which he wanted to be accepted into the Hessian police service.
The state of Hesse rejected this because the prospective commissioner was involved in a Whatsapp chat with partly racist content.
The court dismissed the man's complaint on Wednesday on the grounds that it shared the assessment of the police academy.
According to the court, the man underwent training at the Hesse Police Academy between 2016 and 2019 and was a member of a group chat with fellow students. The messages posted were also said to have included several racist and inhuman pictures and videos. In 2017, the man had posted a picture himself. In addition, he should not have distanced himself from other files of other people.
The plaintiff had stressed in court that he had no racist motives and that his picture had also been misinterpreted. The Chamber, however, shared the academy's “well-founded” assessment “that the plaintiff had justified doubts that he did not offer the guarantee by the uncommented picture and the participation in the group chat, which remained without any apparent distancing over a long period of time to perform his duties in his service impartially and without regard to the person ”. The verdict is not yet legally binding.