BERLIN (AP) — A German doctor has been sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail for illegally issuing greater than 4,000 folks with exemptions from carrying masks through the coronavirus pandemic.
Public broadcaster SWR reported {that a} regional courtroom within the southwestern city of Weinheim convicted the doctor late Monday for issuing certificates to folks from throughout Germany, most of whom she had by no means met or examined. During the trial she had argued that carrying masks was dangerous to folks’s well being.
In addition to the jail sentence she was handed a three-year work ban and ordered to pay 28,000 euros ($29,550), the sum she had obtained for issuing the medical certificates. Her workplace assistant was fined 2,700 euros.
The doctor’s lawyer intends to attraction the decision, SWR reported.
Dozens of supporters gathered outdoors the courtroom in Weinheim, north of Heidelberg, to protest towards the decision and Germany’s pandemic restrictions.
Germany ended necessities to put on masks in lots of indoor settings final yr, although they’re nonetheless obligatory on long-distance trains, in medical doctors’ practices, hospitals, nursing properties and on some regional public transport.
