German man falsely imprisoned for 13 years faces €100000 bill for jail time

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14 pointsvinni23 comments

In a day and age where Kafkaesque gets overused, this indeed seems Kafkaesque.

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> In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, judge Simon Pschorr described the practice as "common, customary and legal", indicating that the 64-year-old former convict may well have to foot the bill.

> Before he left office, former Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) had planned to abolish the practice, but his plans fell by the wayside with the collapse of the traffic-light coalition back in November.

The collapse of the coalition happened because of disagreements about Germany's involvement in Ukraine, so this is another consequence of it I would not have expected.

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