Because of two videos on the subject of police, the Hamburg creator Leon Machère must pay 25,000 euros to the state treasury. The district court on Wednesday, however, a procedure for spoofing a crime and imposition of office (Az .: 245 Ds 184/18).

In addition to the payment requirement, the 26-year-old was ordered not to put any new police pranks online in the next six months in which officials are ridiculed. Prank means in English prank.

Machère, whose real name is Rustem Ramaj, received a penal order on 1 August and was to pay 150 daily rates of 250 euros - a total of 37,500 euros. He objected to this.

More than two million subscribers follow the YouTube channel from Machère. For his YouTube channel, he lets video capture how unsuspecting passers-by - mostly in Hamburg - on the glue. Two of these pranks have now brought him the fine.

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Last year, he had posted a video of a Prank in which, cleverly placed near police, he pretends to spray graffiti on walls. In fact, he holds a can of cooling spray in his hand. Although police officers are aware of him, but instead of maximum escalation initially follows only an interested exchange. "Are you doing this clean or what?", Two of the policemen ask Machère.

Even at another corner of a house a police officer wants to have nothing to do with Machère, after it is clear that he sprays no graffiti. "Do you have a Euro for me?", The creator calls her still afterwards, probably in the hope of a few seconds more video. Another policeman threatens at the end of the video after all, with arrest. He finally gives Machère the tip: "Just let it go."

For another video Machère drove according to the allegations of the court with blue lights and sirens in a white car through the streets of Hamburg and urged passers by megaphone to undress or follow other instructions. Some people believed in a police operation, Machère filmed everything for his channel.

In court, the creator now said that he no longer earned his money with videos of this kind, but only with music.